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  • adjective Having more than one engine

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Examples

  • Tom Korte, a dispatcher for the Wood County Dispatch Center, said the pilot was the only person on the plane, which the Federal Aviation Administration described as a multiengine Cessna 337 manufactured in 1967.

    The Green Bay Press-Gazette Latest Headlines 2009

  • He has an airline transportation certificate and is also authorized to fly single and multiengine planes.

    CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2009 2009

  • CANDIOTTI (voice over): The 26-year-old can fly multiengine aircraft and ran his father's company in Lakeland.

    CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2008 2008

  • CANDIOTTI: The 26-year-old can fly multiengine aircraft and ran his father's company in Lakeland.

    CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2008 2008

  • The proposed regulations, released by the Federal Aviation Administration last week, would require airlines to look for air leaks that "could result in multiengine flameout," or engine stoppages.

    FAA Issues Call for Safety Checks 2008

  • Several years ago, regional airlines required applicants to have 1,500 hours of total flying time and 500 of those hours in multiengine airplanes -- a level typically reached after several years of work as a flight instructor, freight hauler or corporate-jet pilot.

    Airlines Lower Bar 2007

  • Coastal Aviation specialized in offering accelerated training to pilots seeking multiengine and instrument ratings for commercial flights, says its former owner Paul Proctor.

    A North Carolina Qaeda Cell? 2007

  • But now some are down around 500 hours, with as little as 50 of those hours in multiengine airplanes, according to Kit Darby, president of Aviation Information Resources, Inc., an Atlanta-based career resource company for pilots.

    Airlines Lower Bar 2007

  • LEMON: OK, let me ask you real quick, was it a single or multiengine plane?

    CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2006 2006

  • β€œHe was still lobbying for me to change to multiengine aircraft and I wanted him to sense some of the independence of the fighters,” Buzz relates.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

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