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On 10 January, Philippine Mars departed Cowichan Bay, following successful run-ups and taxi checks. The aircraft landed at the Sproat lake Bomber Base without incident. [43] On 9 February 2025, Philippine Mars left Sproat Lake for the final time, lifting off at 11:03am PST. The aircraft made a fast pass of the bomber base, Harbour Quay and Port ...
Artwork highlighting the aircraft in the context of other clippers. The Martin M-130 was a commercial flying boat designed and built in 1935 by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Baltimore, Maryland, for Pan American Airways. Three were built: the China Clipper, the Philippine Clipper and the Hawaii Clipper. All three had crashed by 1945.
Former Point-class coastal cutters of the US Coast Guard. Philippine Navy received several units transferred by the US government and formerly used by the South Vietnamese Navy, but were sold for scrap due to poor condition. Two units were transferred to the Philippine Navy as part of US Military Assistance in 1999 and 2001.
Knox immediate approved the plan and the Naval Air Transport Service was created. This was a tall order since the largest transport operated by the Navy at this time were four R2Ds (DC-2). The first military transport version of the DC-3, the C-47, was first flown on 23 December 1941.
Transport; Douglas C-47: United States: Transport 30 [54] retired from service Britten-Norman Islander: United Kingdom: Transport 22 [55] licensed, produced by PADC [55] C-123 Provider: United States Transport C-123K: 19 [50] in service from 1975 to 1980 [49] de Havilland Canada DHC-2: Canada: Utility / Transport 25 [50] replaced by the BN-2A ...
Formerly ship-mounted anti-aircraft guns, transferred to the PMC. Mounted on M35 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton trucks. [5] [45] M2 Browning United States: Heavy machine gun: Twin Naval Mk. 56 – Formerly patrol boat-mounted guns, either mounted on a naval gun tub fitted on an M35 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-ton trucks that tows the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun trailers ...
The Mars was converted by the Navy into a transport aircraft designated the XPB2M-1R. Satisfied with the performance, twenty of the modified JRM-1 Mars were ordered. The first, named Hawaii Mars , was delivered in June 1945, but the Navy scaled back their order at the end of World War II, buying only the five aircraft which were then on the ...
The Martin 193 was a design for a giant cargo transport seaplane that was conceived in 1942 as part of the "Sky Freighter" concept for colossal flying boats that could carry large loads of troops and freight across the Atlantic Ocean in response to the sinking of Allied merchant ships by U-boats.