The Buckeye State became the cockeyed state after botching the design of the iconic Wright Brothers plane while rolling out its new license plates.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was left red-faced as the birthplace of aviation unveiled the new Sunshine In Ohio license plate on October 21, the fourth new plate in the last 20 years.
DeWine wanted the plate to reflect the 'heart and soul' of the Buckeye State as well as the 'beauty' of the seal Ohio, all the diverse cities and the aviation heritage.
However, the plate created by the DMV flipped the orientation on the famed 1903 Wright Flyer, an easy mistake to make by agency's beauracrats.
The botched license plate design swapped the location of the elevators, putting them on the tail end of the plane, located on the right side by the shape of Ohio, instead of in the front. And it's a push prop design — the propeller is supposed to be behind Orville Wright's feet as he faces the elevators.
The corrected plate shows the elevators in front, as the a prone Orville flies toward the left side of the plate, who was the first in the world to take flight in 1903 from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
The state of Ohio debuted a new license plate - a first since 2013 and the fourth debuted in the last 20 years - to honor the 'heart and soul' of Ohio. The design features the 'harvest country' with a field of wheat front and center and a city skyline to honor its 'world-class' cities on the left (pictured: the wrong version)
After it debuted on October 21, the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles issued a corrected version of the plate. The Wright Brothers' plane, which is pulling the state slogan 'birthplace in aviation' was backward. The elevators - the small part on the front of the plane - were originally shown on the back of the plane like many modern models. However, the Wright Brothers had them fastened in the front (pictured: the corrected version)
The Wright Brother's plane developed rapidly over three years
The brothers' built, designed, and learned to fly in their hometown of Dayton, Ohio, located about an hour away from the state capital of Columbus
Luckily, the state checked their seatbelts before takeoff and noticed the design flaw the same day as the reveal.
'We are aware that the plane on the new Ohio license plate unveiled this morning was oriented in the wrong direction,' the Ohio BMV wrote on
