"Hawaii Mars," however, preceded "Philippine Mars" into retirement. Not having been used over fires since 2015 and with a ...

Coulson purchased the Hawaii Mars and Philippine Mars in 2007. The Philippine Mars will be disassembled in Arizona before the parts are transported to the museum, which displays about 400 aircraft ...

The Philippine Mars was one of six prototypes produced by the U.S. Navy in the 1940s for large-scale transport between the West Coast and Hawaii. However, as aviation technology advanced ...

It was followed by the cargo variant of the Hawaii Mars, the Philippine Mars, the Marianas Mars, the Marshall Mars, the firefighting variant of the Hawaii Mars, and the Caroline Mars. While most of ...