I found a wood block plane to use as reference. The wheels are separate assets in the scene, and if I was doing this again I’d make the propeller different too so that it could move independently and imitate flight.
Followed along with the instructors model afterwards and had completely forgotten about locking to the axis or number snapping. To get each side equal I was using the properties panel info about position, rotation and such. (which was so much more painful). Colour me excited to learn how to mirror things in Blender.