The phrase "a plane designed to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the purpose or function of a specific aircraft.
Example: "The engineers unveiled a plane designed to reduce fuel consumption and minimize environmental impact."
Alternatives: "an aircraft intended to" or "a jet built to".
Boeing sales staff still has to answer questions about the viability of a plane designed to cruise so close to Mach 1, the speed of sound, where conditions become notoriously unstable.
The U-2 was one of the Cold War's most infamous aircraft, a plane designed to fly over unfriendly territory too high for enemy fighters or missiles, and take pictures of unparalleled detail - and, as it has just been revealed, helped spur the development of the secret Area 51 airbase.
At times it has used the Bombardier 415, a Canadian plane designed to fight fires.
The Pentagon would rather buy unmanned aircraft to gather intelligence in Afghanistan and accelerate the testing for the F-35, a new plane designed to attack ground targets.
One theory is that it is a spy plane, designed to catch savvy targets that know how to go to ground when spy satellites which have predictable orbits are overhead.
The mishap delays experiments to probe a relatively unexplored region of the atmosphere and postpones the trial run of Zephyr 3, a prototype of a solar-powered plane designed to fly as high as 40 kilometers.
This narrow and tall structure is topped by a triangulated roof plane designed to be read at the street as a low, one-story shed, even as the back portion of the structure climbs much higher.
The A400M is a four-engine turboprop plane designed to replace the aging C-130 Hercules, made by Lockheed Martin, and the French-German C-160 Transall, which make up the bulk of European military transport aircraft.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is a private suborbital space plane designed to carry two pilots and six passengers on round-trip flights into space.
"They're not exactly leaping off the runway," said Paul Buxton-Carr, a Canadian pilot, as he watched the potbellied plane, designed to hunt submarines, climb toward its latest mission: dousing wildfires in the American West.
Among other things the double-decker plane, designed to carry 555 passengers, needs disembarking tubes that reach both decks.
