bush pilot

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bush pilot (plural bush pilots)

  1. (chiefly Canada, Australia, New Guinea) A pilot who flies small aircraft to and from remote locations, over expanses of relatively unpopulated territory.
    • 1959 July 13, “‘The Great One’”, in Time:
      Last month, landed by a bush pilot on a glacier at 7,000 ft., the four began their long push—the kind of adventure that pales a plains dweller.
  2. (Australia, obsolete) A person who guides people through bushland.

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