airboater

plural airboaters

1. A person who participated in the activity of airboating.

   We paddled on, and by the time we got the boats hauled up on the bar, a few hundred yards down, the airboater had fired up his motor and roared off.

   2018, Max McCoy, Elevations: a personal exploration of the Arkansas River, The University Press of Kansas, page 295

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   While I have not done any study, from my personal experience as an airboater and as an aeronautical engineer, I do not believe that it is possible to meet the proposed noise limitations with an air boat propeller blade, regardless of the power source.

   1991, Big Cypress National Preserve General Management Plan (GMP): Environmental Impact Statement, United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, page 463

   After getting up to track a suspicious airboater, I went back to my camp, climbed back into my hammock, put another log on the fire, and slept the rest of the night (what was left of it!).

   2012, Tom Shirley, Everglade Patrole, University Press of Florida, page ??