The phrase "a rescue plane" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an aircraft specifically designated for search and rescue operations.
Example: "The rescue plane was dispatched immediately after the distress signal was received."
Alternatives: "a search and rescue aircraft" or "an emergency response plane."
She called many of Worsley's close friends, asking if someone should ask A.L.E. to dispatch a rescue plane.
If one of the men were injured, there would be no place for miles for a rescue plane to land.
One subplot involves the plight of Tutsi orphans who appear just before a rescue plane is about to take off and find themselves left behind in the rain.
He was determined to finish before February, when winter set in and the conditions became too perilous for a rescue plane to land; even A.L.E.
Both Raytheon and the science foundation say that it would be too dangerous to send a rescue plane to the South Pole now and that Ms. Douceur's condition is not life-threatening.
David Firestone (NYT) SCIENCE AND HEALTH DOCTOR RESCUED FROM POLE -- A rescue plane completed the perilous first leg of flight from the South Pole, carrying an ailing American doctor across Antarctica to a base near the coast.
The vanishing of Flight 19 in 1945 was made especially famous when an amphibious rescue plane sent to search for the wreckage also disappeared without a trace.
The Coast Guard said Monday that a private team had located a World War II rescue plane that crashed on the southeast coast of Greenland 70 years ago with three service members on board.
NATIONAL A report in the National Briefing column on Tuesday about the locating of a World War II rescue plane that crashed in Greenland 70 years ago misidentified the military branch of one of those on board.
That Harten's amphibious rescue plane, an HU-16 Albatross, crashed back into the ocean just after scooping up the four survivors – as ridiculously implausible as that even sounds – was perhaps almost inevitable given the previous chain of events.
On Tuesday morning, a Canadian Forces Hercules search and rescue plane was scanning the ground for vehicles and two military helicopters began airlifting people from cars.
