List of pusher aircraft by configuration

A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive as well as the lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft), 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).

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Conventional and three surface layouts

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

Direct drive

Prop ahead of tail
Between booms or frames
Coaxially on rear fuselage
Nacelle above fuselage
Below tail boom
Above tailboom, behind fuselage

Propeller behind the tail
  • Air Quest Nova 21 1992 2 seat homebuilt, unk no. built[17]
  • Convair 111 Air Car 1945 roadable airplane, 1 built
  • Pénaud Planophore 1871 first aerodynamically stable fixed-wing aeroplane, rubber powered model, 1 built
  • Prescott Pusher 1985 4 seat homebuilt, ca.30 built

Lateral behind wing

Lateral nacelles

Engines and props behind the pilot

Remote drive

Propeller ahead of tail
Within airframe
  • Fischer Fibo-2a 1954 1 seat motorglider, 1 built[20]
  • Rhein Flugzeugbau RW 3 Multoplan 1955 RFB Fantrainer prototype, 27 built[21]
  • Rhein-Flugzeugbau Sirius II 1972 2 seat motorglider, unk no. built[9]
  • Megone biplane 1913 2 seat, 1 built[22]
  • Neukom AN-20C 1983 1 seat ultralight homebuilt motorglider, 1 built
Behind wing

Inside tail

Behind tail

Propeller above fuselage

Canard and tandem layouts

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

Remote engine mounting

Tailless aircraft, flying wings and closed wing

Tailless aircraft lack a horizontal stabilizer, flying wings lack a distinct fuselage, with crew, engines, and payload contained within the wing structure.

Rotorcraft

Push-pull aircraft

Sides of fuselage

Above fuselage

Extremities

On nose and between booms

On wings and between booms

See also

References

Notes
  1. see Ambrosini SS.4#Development
  2. Extension shaft on aft engine. The tractor engine was scheduled to be used during take-off, climb and first part of the course. In fact it was actually also used to cope with aft engine trouble.

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