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List of pusher aircraft by configuration and date

A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines.
Pushers may be classified according to lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft) as well as engine/propeller location and drive. For historical interest, pusher aircraft are also classified by date.
Some aircraft have a Push-pull configuration with both tractor and pusher engines. The list includes these even if the pusher engine is just added to a conventional layout (engines inside the wings or above the wing for example).

Conventional and three surface layouts

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The conventional layout of an aircraft has wings ahead of the empennage.

Direct drive

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Propeller ahead of tail

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Between frames (Farman layout)
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Top to bottom: 1870 helicopter;
1871 'Planophore;
1873 ornithopter
 
Wright Flyer 1903 pusher
 
Wright, Curtiss and Farman pushers
 
Voisin-Farman 1908
 
Curtiss n°2 (1909
 
Bristol Boxkite (1910)
 
Wright Model B (1910)
 
Curtiss Model E (1911)
 
Curtiss Model F (1912)
 
Voisin III (1914)
 
Airco DH.2 (1915)
 
Vickers FB.5 (1915)
 
Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2] (1915)
 
Grigorovitch M-9 (1916)
 
FBA Type H (1916)
 
Voisin VIII (1916)
 
Macchi M.5 (1917)
 
Supermarine Walrus flying boat (1933)
 
Bereiev MBR-2 (1935)
 
Dornier Do 18 (1935)
 
De Schelde S.21 drawings (1939)
 
SAAB J 21 fighter (1943).
 
Experimental fighter Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (1943)
 
Kyushu J7W Shinden (1945)
 
Republic RC-3 Seabee with gear retracted (1945)
 
Fokker F.25 (1946)
 
Experimental flying wing bomber Northrop XB-35 (1946)
 
Convair B-36 Peacemaker (1946)
 
Alaparma Baldo (1949)
 
Lake Buccaneer (1950)
 
SIAI Marchetti FN 333 Riviera (1952)
 
Piaggio P.166 (1957)
 
Raab Krähe (1958)
 
Cessna 337 Skymaster (1962)
 
Lesher teal (1965)
 
Bede BD-5 (1971)
 
Lockspeiser LDA-1 (1971)
 
Rutan VariEze 1975
 
Cascade Kasperwing I-80 1976
 
Rutan Long-EZ pusher configuration homebuilt aircraft.
 
PZL M-17 (1977)
 
RFB X-114 (1977)
 
Edgley Optica (1979)
 
Quad City Challenger – a mid-engined pusher ultralight aircraft
 
Grinvalds Orion (1981)
 
LearAvia Lear Fan (1981)
 
Sadler Vampire (1982)
 
Beechcraft Starship (1983)
 
Spectrum SA-550 (1983)
 
Dornier Seastar (1984)
 
RTAF-5 (1984)
 
Prescott Pusher (1985)
 
Piaggio P.180 Avanti (1986)
 
Airkraft Sunny joined wing 1989
 
Miller-Bohannan JM-2 Special 1989
 
Seabird seeker (1989)
 
Rans S12 1990
 
Embraer-FMA CBA-123 Vector
 
UAV SAGEM Sperwer B (1990s)
 
Aeroprakt A-20 Vista (1991
 
NPO Molniya (1993)
 
Creative Flight Aerocat (2001)
 
UCAV General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (2001)
 
NAL Saras (2004)
 
LH Aviation LH-10 Ellipse (2008)
 
Aeroprakt A-36 (2011)
 
AHRLAC (2014)
Between frames or booms (1915 and later)
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Between booms
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1945 and later

1980 and later

Between booms / UAV's
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Between outboard tail booms
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Coaxially in rear fuselage
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Nacelle above fuselage
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WW1 or Before

1920s

1930s

Post War II

Below tail boom
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Between up and down tail booms
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Above tailboom
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Propeller behind the tail

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Lateral behind wing

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1930 and later

Lateral nacelles

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Remote drive

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Propeller ahead of tail

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Within airframe
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Behind wing
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Inside tail

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Behind tail

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1960 and later

Propeller above fuselage or wing

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  • Schleicher ASH 26 1995 1 seat glider with retractable propeller, 234 built
  • Airfish-3 WIG 1990 Wing In Ground Effect demonstrator one seat, 1 built
  • Airfish-8 WIG 2007 Wing In Ground Effect transport prototype 8/10 seats, 2 built

Canard and tandem layouts

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A canard is an aircraft with a smaller wing ahead of the main wing. A tandem layout has both front and rear wings of similar dimensions.

Direct drive

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1945 and later In this section Rutan pushers are more than 1000 built.

Remote engine mounting

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Joined wings

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A tandem (or three-surface) configuration whose wingtips are joined is a Closed wing.

Tailless aircraft, Flying wings

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Tailless aircraft

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Tailless aircraft lack a horizontal stabilizer.

Tailless, fabric wing, no fuselage

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Flying wings

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Flying wings lack a distinct fuselage, with crew, engines, and payload contained within the wing structure.

Push-pull aircraft

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Sides of fuselage

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Above fuselage

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Extremities

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On nose and between booms

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On wings and between booms

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Rotorcraft

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See also

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Bibliography

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  • Extension-Shaft Pusher Type Aircraft, Sport aviation[81]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ the propeller revolves on the upper boom
  2. ^ the propeller revolves on the upper boom
  3. ^ see Ambrosini SS.4#Development
  4. ^ Extension shaft on aft engine. The tractor engine only used during take-off, climb and some part of the course. It was actually used to cope with aft engine trouble

Citations

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  1. ^ French Voisin III bomber
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  3. ^ "English: Alliet-Larivière Allar 4 3-view drawing from l'Aerophile February 1938". February 1938.
  4. ^ Les étranges créations d'Otto Skauba, Le Fanatique de l'Aviation, pages 14 & 22, July 1992
  5. ^ Baby twin-boomer, Sport Aviation, May 1988
  6. ^ Aircraft N455CB, ACAPELLA
  7. ^ Air-Britain:Aero Dynamics Sparrow Hawk Mk.II
  8. ^ Photos & History: HFL Flugzeugbau Stratos 300
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  14. ^ Analysis of a semi-tailless aircraft design, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a402729.pdf
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  16. ^ Propeller spins with motor around tail boom
  17. ^ http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/4043.htm Boeing Canada A-213 Totem
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  34. ^ Rhein Flugzeugbau RW 3 - Sportflugzeug
  35. ^ The prop revolves on the tail boom https://www.j2mcl-planeurs.net/dbj2mcl/planeurs-machines/planeur-fiche_0int.php?code=4064
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  50. ^ Flashback to 1981: A Look Back at the Lear Fan | Flying Magazine
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  54. ^ VmaxProbe
  55. ^ Info Pilote n° 701 aout 2014
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  67. ^ Rohr 2-175
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  77. ^ url=http://www.histaviation.com/Dornier_Do_S.html Archived 2021-12-14 at the Wayback Machine accessdate=Feb 2016
  78. ^ url=http://www.aerofiles.com/_sik.html accessdate=Feb 2016
  79. ^ Star Kraft SK-700
  80. ^ "Moskalev SAM-13 : Other". 13 July 2005.
  81. ^ "Extension-Shaft Pusher Type Aircraft".

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