reconnaissance plane

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   a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy

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   military

Questions about reconnaissance plane

What does reconnaissance plane mean?

reconnaissance plane means "a military airplane used to gain information about an enemy".

Is reconnaissance plane a common word?

reconnaissance plane is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.