The famed Martin Mars bomber, a massive water tanker aircraft used for fighting fires for more than a half-century in British Columbia, is expected to make its last flight this fall when it will be flown to North Saanich for a permanent display in the B.C. Aviation Museum.
Lana Popham, minister of tourism, and Josie Osborne, MLA for Mid Island-Pacific Rim, will gather with representatives from the B.C. Aviation Museum and Coulson Aviation to make the announcement and tour the Hawaii Martin Mars water bomber. The aviation museum and Coulson CEO Wayne Coulson have been in talks about the Hawaii Mars for more than two years.
“People just love this plane and they’ve come from all over the world just to see it,” said Mosdell, noting that when he worked in forestry, lumber customers from Japan specifically wanted to see the Hawaii Mars bomber. More recently, German tourists had their faces pressed against the fence at the Coulson yard craning for a closer look, he said.
Nichol said changes may have to be made to some of the docks and infrastructure at the coast guard base at Patricia Bay to barge the big plane to land, where it would have to be fitted with wheeled dollies to be rolled out of the ocean, put into a cradle and trucked across West Saanich Road and Victoria International Airport property to the museum.The Martin Mars bombers are water planes and have no landing gear.Only seven Martin Mars were made by California-based Glenn L.
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