bush pilot

noun

: a pilot who flies a small plane into remote areas

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In fact, the creek's orange color was what led a bush pilot to report the likelihood of valuable minerals there in the 1960s. Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024 It was designed with the help of Alaskan bush pilot Tommy Thompson in 1952. Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024 West with the Night by Beryl Markham (1942) Markham, who grew up in the Kenyan Rift Valley hunting with spears and training horses, became one of West Africa's greatest bush pilots. The Week Staff, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023 Thankfully, Cuddy was a bush pilot. Anchorage Daily News, 28 Jan. 2022 See all Example Sentences for bush pilot 

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bush pilot was in 1936

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“Bush pilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bush%20pilot. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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bush pilot

noun
: a pilot who flies a small plane over remote or lightly settled country where commercial airlines do not go

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