You never know what you find at exotic airports and I was very pleasantly surprised with this one! A local aeroclub member told us that this is a full scale replica of the aircraft that Gunther Plüschow (a German explorer) used to land in the bay at Ushuaia in 1927. Even though it is a replica, the propellor is the authentic one from 1927!

You never know what you find at exotic airports and I was very pleasantly surprised with this one! A local aeroclub member told us that this is a full scale replica of the aircraft that Gunther Plüschow (a German explorer) used to land in the bay at Ushuaia in 1927. Even though it is a replica, the propellor is the authentic one from 1927! You can see the upper wings on the ground, this is so they don't break due to heavy snowfall.

The HD 24 biplane was flown as a training floatplane by the DVS (German Airline Pilot School, actually a covert military school). D-1313 was built for Gunther Plüschow, an adventurer who become famous as 'the pilot of Tsingtao' (Qingdao) during WWI, hence the aircraft's name. The plane was shipped to Punta Arenas, Chile for his South American explorations. He crashed it and was killed near the Argentino Lake in January 1931. Photo from: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich