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Re-Engined Philippine Mars Lands In San Francisco (Updated)

The Philippine Mars is expected to fly to San Diego on Tuesday.

 

Russ Niles

Updated Feb 10, 2025 1:03 AM EST

 

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After four engine changes, the Philippine Mars made the 800 mile flight from Vancouver Island to San Francisco on the first leg of its journey to a museum in Arizona on Sunday. Coulson Flying Tanker head Wayne Coulson told Nanaimo News Now that after months of maintenance and the engine swaps he was waiting for weather for the ferry flight that will ultimately take it from its home base in Port Alberni to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson. The gigantic former Navy troop and cargo transport left Sproat Lake about 11:30 a.m. and landed in the bay by the city in California just before 4 p.m. The plane hugged the West Coast and had good weather the whole way.

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 Last August, the aircraft's stablemate Hawaii Mars made the short hop from Port Alberni to Victoria where it's now on permanent display at the B.C. Aviation Museum. In the meantime, a series of engine issues on Philippine Mars ultimately led to the installation of the four airworthy Wright R3350 18-cylinder engines from Hawaii Mars. The four Curtiss Electric propellers were also taken from Hawaii Mars. The Mars will leave San Francisco Tuesday for San Diego where public events and media flights are planned. The massive flying boat, one of seven built as troop and materiel transports for the Navy, will then head to an undisclosed lake in Arizona where it will be disassembled and trucked to Tucson.

The last attempt in early January ended over Port Townsend, Washington, with the failure of one engine. The plane turned around and landed in a bay near Victoria before that engine was swapped for a flight back to Port Alberni. There it was reportedly decided to replace the remaining two original engines with the two proven engines remaining on Hawaii Mars. Test flights were done last week.