Bush plane

An American Champion Scout. Note the oversized tundra tires, for use on rough surfaces.

A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide unscheduled passenger and freight services to remote, undeveloped areas of a country, such as the Canadian north (or bush), Alaskan tundra, the African bush, or the Australian Outback. They are used where ground transportation infrastructure is inadequate or doesn't exist.[1]

Common traits

Since a bush plane is defined by how it's used, a wide variety of different aircraft with different configurations have been used over the years as such, however experience has shown certain traits to be desirable, and so appear frequently, especially on aircraft specifically designed as bush planes. None of these traits are mandatory - merely that they are commonly seen features of bush planes.

Current and historical bush planes

Years in brackets are of first flight.

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Aviation museums with large collections of bush planes

Appearances in the media

See also

References

  1. "Bush planes used in areas where roads do not exist".
  2. Anderson, 2004, p.82
  3. Foster, 1990, p.74-79
  4. Foster, 1990, p.189-191
  5. Foster, 1990, p.174, 190
  6. Foster, 1990, p.191
  7. Anderson, 2004, p.31
  8. Foster, 1990, p.97, 102, 175
  9. Foster, 1990, p.156
  10. Foster, 1990, p.64-65, 156
  11. Foster, 1990, p.191, 197
  12. Foster, 1990, p.43-45
  13. Foster, 1990, p.48
  14. Cole, 1986, p.4
  15. Foster, 1990, p.74, 131, 188
  16. Foster, 1990, p.139
  17. Foster, 1990, p.105, 200
  18. Foster, 1990, p.173, 190
  19. Foster, 1990, p.199
  20. Foster, 1990, p.199, 201
  21. Foster, 1990, p.202, 207, 210
  22. Foster, 1990, p.177, 188
  23. Foster, 1990, p.204
  24. Cole, 1986, p.34-38
  25. Foster, 1990, p.135
  26. Foster, 1990, p.107, 115, 138
  27. Foster, 1990, p.136, 138
  28. Cole, 1986, p.49-55
  29. Foster, 1990, p.4
  30. Foster, 1990, p.53, 56-57
  31. Foster, 1990, p.52-53, 56-57, 70-71
  32. Cole, 1986, p.39-42
  33. Foster, 1990, p.152, 155
  34. Foster, 1990, p.207-208
  35. 1 2 Foster, 1990, p.197
  36. Foster, 1990, p.204, 208
  37. Foster, 1990, p.36-41
  38. Foster, 1990, p.180
  39. Foster, 1990, p.101-102, 158, 166, 188.
  40. Foster, 1990, p.180-181
  41. Foster, 1990, p.95-98
  42. Foster, 1990, p.142-143, 174, 188
  43. Foster, 1990, p.195, 198
  44. Cole, 1986, p.45-48
  45. Foster, 1990, p.47
  46. Foster, 1990, p.194

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