The Second World War-era plane is expected to fly to its new home at the Pima Air and Space Museum the week of Nov. 18, weather permitting.
The massive Philippine Mars is getting ready to fly to its new home at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, after months of work to make the retired water bomber air-worthy.
It’s hoped that the plane will fly above the only other surviving Martin JRM Mars, the Hawaii Mars, now at its permanent home in B.C. Aviation Museum in Sidney, although that’s also weather-dependent, Coulson said. “We overhauled the props because that is probably one of the most concerning maintenance items on the aircraft.”
Coulson Aviation is arranging approvals from Transport Canada to move the plane to the U.S., he said. A statement from the museum, home to approximately 400 aircraft, said the Second World War-era aircraft will be preserved “for decades to come.” The planes were then used during the Korean War for medical air-transport lifts between Hawaii and California. They also carried cargo between Hawaii and California before being decommissioned in 1956.
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