It’s About the Journey Not Just the Destination

Well That’s it for us. Have had enough abuse from Social Media (particularly Reddit). Site will run until current subscription expires. Had just hoped to share pictures and our travels with people . Was also a great help with my mental health, but just can’t take the shit anymore. Enjoy the existing pages while they last.

Martin Mars Hawaii Mars II

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Martin JRM-1 Mars II BuNo 76823 named Hawaii Mars II was delivered to the USN on 23 April 1946 and assigned to VR-2 at NAS Alameda. Later converted and redesignated JRM-3, it was withdrawn from service on 22 August 1956.

In 1959 it was sold to a Canadian company, Forest Industries Flying Tankers (FIFT), and converted to a forest fire fighting aircraft and registered CF-LYL (later C-FLYL). It remains the only aircraft of this type in service and flew with FIFT (Forest Industries Flying Tankers), FTI (Flying Tankers Inc.) and the Coulson Group at Sproat Lake, British Columbia, Canada until 2013 and briefly in 2015.