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List of pusher aircraft by configuration and date

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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[80]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b the propeller revolves on the upper boom
  2. ^ see Ambrosini SS.4#Development
  3. ^ 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

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