{"id":10782178,"date":"2026-08-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=10782178"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:56:42","slug":"martin-mars-hawaii-mars-largest-water-bomber-flying-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/martin-mars-hawaii-mars-largest-water-bomber-flying-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Flying Boat That Fought Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n<p>On a warm Sunday afternoon in August 2024, a crimson-and-white flying boat the size of an airliner lifted off a lake on Vancouver Island for the last time. Tens of thousands of people lined the shore. Nine red Snowbirds jets slid into formation alongside her. And a 78-year-old aeroplane that had spent half a century dousing wildfires flew home to a museum.<\/p>\r\n<p>Her name is Hawaii Mars, and she is one of only two Martin Mars flying boats left in the world &mdash; the largest water bombers ever to fly.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;margin:24px 0;border-radius:8px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Informations cl\u00e9s<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Taper:<\/strong> Martin JRM Mars long-range flying boat, later water bomber<\/li><li><strong>Premier vol du prototype :<\/strong> June 1942<\/li><li><strong>Envergure:<\/strong> 200 ft (61 m); length ~120 ft<\/li><li><strong>Moteurs :<\/strong> four Wright R-3350 radials, 2,500 hp each<\/li><li><strong>Charge en eau :<\/strong> up to ~27,000 litres, scooped in about 22 seconds<\/li><li><strong>Final flight:<\/strong> August 11, 2024, to the BC Aviation Museum<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c-fZ9lQnYkk\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Built to cross an ocean, not fight fires<\/h2><p>The Mars was born in 1941 as a giant Navy patrol bomber, a scaled-up cousin of the Martin PBM Mariner. The prototype first flew in June 1942 &mdash; but by the time the production JRM Mars boats were ready, the war was ending, and only a handful were ever built. With a 200-foot wingspan and four Wright R-3350 radials, these &ldquo;flying dreadnoughts&rdquo; spent their Navy careers hauling cargo and troops across the Pacific.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=695213310  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/martin-mars-water-bomber-northern-lake.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Mars water bomber on a lake\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Martin Mars in its firefighting colours. The Mars remains the largest water bomber ever flown. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">A second life as a firefighter<\/h2><p>Their real fame came later. In 1960 a British Columbia forestry consortium bought the surplus Mars and had them converted into water bombers. A plywood tank in the hull and retractable scoops let a Mars skim across a lake, swallow around 27,000 litres of water in roughly 22 seconds, and dump it on a wildfire. From 1960 to 2015 the great boats fought fires up and down the province.<\/p>\r\n<p>Over its long career the Hawaii Mars alone dropped an estimated 50 million gallons of water &mdash; a figure its last operator, Coulson Aviation, reckons makes it the most effective firefighting aircraft in history.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/heC5wLubiEw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Le dernier vol<\/h2><p>By 2024 only the Hawaii Mars still flew. On August 11 it lifted off Sproat Lake at 3:20 p.m., pilots Peter Killin and Rick Matthews at the controls and the Coulson family aboard, for a farewell circuit of the lake and a route that traced the forest communities the Mars had protected. Near Crofton it met the nine jets of the Canadian Forces Snowbirds, who escorted it to Patricia Bay, where thousands had gathered to watch it land.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s bittersweet for all of us. We wish the airplane a safe last flight and will all miss it!&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Coulson Aviation<\/strong> &mdash; on the Hawaii Mars, August 2024<\/div><\/div>\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Full circle<\/h2><p>Days later the boat was winched up a Coast Guard ramp at Patricia Bay &mdash; the very ramp used in 1960 to haul the Mars ashore for its conversion into a water bomber. It now stands as the centrepiece of the museum&rsquo;s BC Wildfire Aviation exhibit, where visitors can climb inside the hull and even sit at the controls.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><em>&ldquo;This moment brings the Hawaii Mars full circle, as this was the original ramp and location used in 1960 to bring the aircraft on land to convert it into that era&rsquo;s cutting-edge water bomber.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>British Columbia Aviation Museum<\/strong> &mdash; on the Hawaii Mars coming ashore<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=2087941735  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/hawaii-mars-final-flight-oak-bay-2024.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii Mars during its final flight, 2024\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The Hawaii Mars on its final flight, August 11, 2024, near Oak Bay. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/js8uQOMQiaI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n<p>For 78 years the Hawaii Mars did big, unglamorous, dangerous work above the treetops. Now she rests on solid ground, where a crowd can still walk up and marvel at the largest water bomber the world ever built.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-style:italic;color:#777;font-size:14px\">Sources: Skies Magazine; The War Zone; BC Aviation Museum; Coulson Aviation; Wikipedia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">Articles similaires<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/sikorsky-ilya-muromets-first-four-engine-bomber\/\">Le g\u00e9ant qui volait devant les chasseurs<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/short-sunderland-flying-porcupine-2\/\">Le porc-\u00e9pic volant qui a terroris\u00e9 la Luftwaffe<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/henri-fabre-hydravion-le-canard-first-seaplane-1910\/\">Le canard qui a invent\u00e9 l&#039;hydravion<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a warm Sunday afternoon in August 2024, a crimson-and-white flying boat the size of an airliner lifted off a lake on Vancouver Island for the last time. Tens of thousands of people lined the shore. Nine red Snowbirds jets slid into formation alongside her. And a 78-year-old aeroplane that had spent half a century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10781545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[666,664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10782178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-and-legends","category-military-aviation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Martin Mars: The Largest Water Bomber Ever Built<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Martin Mars flying boat became the world\u2019s largest water bomber. 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