LARGEST - Weathervane - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
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N 60° 42.734 W 135° 04.845
8V E 495593 N 6730737
This Douglas DC-3 airplane, cited as the world's largest weathervane, sits on a pedestal in front of the Yukon Transportation Museum, in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
Waymark Code: WM12QAE
Location: Yukon Territory, Canada
Date Posted: 07/01/2020
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"The world's largest Weathervane - A Douglas DC-3 airplane sits on a pedestal in front of the Yukon Transportation Museum, where it was moved in summer of 2009.
The title of “The World’s Largest Weathervane” isn’t just a joke. Placed on a specially engineered pedestal in 1981, the plane slowly and silently pivots and move with the breeze, so that her nose is always pointing into the wind as if in a perpetual, never-ending flight. It only takes a 5 knot wind to turn her.
Bought in April 1946 by Canadian Pacific Airlines, the plane served as a military cargo plane, a civilian plane, and later as a “bush plane.” In truly Canadian style the plane was outfitted with skis so that it might land on remote snowy plains to deliver supplies. After logging 31,851 hours, the DC-3 flew her last flight in November 1970 and was donated to the Yukon Flying Club in 1977. Though the DC-3 has been downgraded to the status of weathervane, as far as the fate of retired planes go, flying forever into the oncoming wind is a pretty good last gig".
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