Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fuselage \Fu"se*lage\, n. (A["e]ronautics)
   An elongated body or frame of an a["e]roplane or flying
   machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body.
   Many a["e]roplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

Source : WordNet®

fuselage
     n : the central body of an airplane that is designed to
         accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo)