The Martin Mars are regarded as the largest operational flying boats ever built. Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose flying boat is the largest, but it only flew once and was never in regular ...

The Martin Mars Flying boat is so big, crews wait until the evening hours to move it. It’s hard to convey on camera just how large the plane is. It recalls a quote from a pilot who flew another ...

Martin Aircraft built seven Mars aircraft for the Navy during World War II, but they were completed too late to conduct the long-range patrols and submarine hunting they were built for.

The Martin Mars water bomber is an iconic piece of B.C. history, used to fight wildfires since the 1950s. Now retired, one of ...

The aircraft flew with registration C-FLYK for FTI (Flying Tankers Inc.) until 2007, when, along with its surviving sibling "Hawaii Mars II", it was sold to Coulson Group to be based at Sproat ...

The last Martin Mars flying boat made its final flight last week, marking the end for a World War II-era seaplane so hulking it had rockets to assist with take-off. Initially developed as maritime ...

The seaplane is a massive Martin JRM Mars aircraft, which was designed during the Second World War for the U.S. Navy and is second only to the mammoth Spruce Goose, which was the largest seaplane ...

Western Star recently had the honor of transporting a piece of aviation history to the aviation museum in Victoria, British Columbia. Martin Mars bombers were the largest aircraft in the world ...

The museum will be receiving a Martin Mars flying boat. There are bigger flying boats, like Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose but the Martin Mars is the largest flying boat that was ever in routine use.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - The historic Philippine Mars seaplane has reached its new home at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson after a complex journey from Lake Pleasant, Arizona. The aircraft is ...

Getting paid to fly the Martin Mars? At 83, Ocean City resident Andy Serrell still marvels at the concept. Behind the controls of the seaplane, so big a mechanic could crawl through the wings to ...