WordNet
n. an airplane that is driven by a propeller
Usage examples of "propeller plane".
After the huge jet liner, this little twenty-passenger propeller plane seemed like a toy.
Hell, when they started flying jets and rocket planes at Muroc, somewhere there must have been the old guys, the bitter old bastards, the remember-whens, who could just fly the hell out of a propeller plane and were still insisting that that was what it was all about.
It caught the four-engine propeller plane on its right wing, knocking out its outboard engine.
He was referring to a small propeller plane that was stored in a tin hangar next to the strip runway.
Renie looked up as a distant but still unbelievably large dragonfly skimmed the shoreline and started out across the river, loud as an ancient propeller plane.
From overhead came the grinding drone of a propeller plane circling Farmer Islands small, private runway.
He compared pre-Beatles music to the bass roar of a propeller plane, and the ensuing post-Beatles rock to the metallic whine of a jet engine.
I feel like I just stepped from a propeller plane to an interplanetary rocket.