Before being moved to the B.C. Aviation Museum, where it will be displayed as its “crown jewel,” there’s still plenty to do.
It’s impossible to tell how many sets of eyes were trained to the skies as the Hawaii Martin Mars water bomber made its historic last flight Sunday.
Photos have piled up in the museum’s inboxes — as well as at the Times Colonist — and social media accounts were filled with images of the massive red-and-white water bomber being escorted by all nine Snowbird jets and a Grumman Goose. Kudos have been pouring in from around the world — Switzerland, South Africa, Australia to name a few.
Coldwater Divers and Coulson Aviation technicians started to attach “beaching gear” to its undercarriage and tail on Monday, wheeled mechanisms that will allow the heavy plane to be pulled out of the water and up the ramp at Patricia Bay. Using a large crane, Nickel Brothers will fit the Martin Mars into a swivelling carriage and onto a heavy-haul trailer that will allow operators to manoeuvre the plane as the truck moves toward the B.C. Aviation Museum.
Hawaii Martin Mars will be placed on a new concrete slab at its outdoor display location next to the B.C. Aviation Museum building at 1910 Norseman Rd.. The cost to the museum so far has been about $750,000, said Nichol. That includes the $250,000 the museum paid Coulson Aviation to acquire Hawaii Martin Mars and $250,000 for the move. The province has provided $250,000.
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