horizontal stabilizer noun Aeronautics. the horizontal surface, usually fixed, of an aircraft empennage, to which the elevator is hinged. Liberaldictionary.com
Also called, especially British, tail plane. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 British Dictionary definitions for horizontal stabilizer horizontal stabilizer noun the US name for tailplane Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012