GREENVILLE — The 17th annual International Seaplane Fly-In will be held Friday through Sunday, Sept. 7-9, at the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife hangar and at the Greenville Municipal Airport.

One of the highlights of this year’s event will the participation of a restored DC-3, believed to be the largest plane in the world on floats. The locally owned airplane will be on display at the municipal airport.

Pilot registration begins at noon Friday at the IFW hangar. At the Greenville Airport, a cookout will be held at 6:30 p.m. and the band Coloured Rain will perform from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Dance admission is $3 per person or $5 per couple.

On Saturday, the schedule is: fly-in breakfast, 7 to 9 a.m., Greenville Community House; contest sign-up for pilots, 9 a.m., IFW hangar; bush pilots’ canoe race and bomb drop, 9:30 a.m. to noon; cookout, noon to 2 p.m., IFW hangar.

The contests will resume at 1 p.m. and continue to 5 p.m. These events will include takeoff and spot landing. A buffet dinner will be served from 6:30 to 8 p.m., followed by an awards and evening program. Coloured Rain will perform again for a dance from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at the airport hangar. Movies wil be shown at Folsom’s seaplane base.

On Sunday, breakfast will be served from 7 to 9 a.m. at the Community House. At 9 a.m. a manufacturers’ meeting will be held, followed by the remainder of the fly-in competitions, including spot landing and taxi slalom. A cookout will be served at the hangar from noon to 2 p.m. Aircraft demonstrations will be held from 1 to 5 p.m.

During the weekend event, the annual “Fly-Buy Craft Fair” will be held across from Morrell Lumber Co. on Main Street.