Triplane

A triplane is a fixed-wing aircraft equipped with three vertically stacked wing planes. Tailplanes and canard foreplanes are not normally included in this count, although they occasionally are.

For aircraft having three lifting surfaces in tandem, see Three-surface aircraft.
For the Japanese rock band, see Triplane (band).
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