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    Airframe Family: Martin JRM Mars
    Latest Model:JRM-3 Mars
    Last Military Serial:76820 USN
    Construction Number:9264
    Last Civil Registration:C-FLYK
    Compressed ID:Martin JRM-3 sn 76820 USN cn 9264 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Coulson Aviation, Sproat Lake, Port Alberni, British Columbia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a JRM-3.

    1945

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 76820.

    12 December 1954


    Photographer: Official U.S. Navy Photograph

    1962

    Converted to serial tanker configuration by Fairey Aviation of Canada.

    From 4 July 1962 to 28 September 2001

    To Forest Industries Flying Tankers of Port Alberni, BC with new c/r CF-LYK.

    1975


    Photographer: Unknown

    By August 1978


    Photographer: Unknown

    25 February 2004

    To Flying Tankers Inc, Port Alberni, BC with new c/r C-FLYK.

    3 May 2005

    To Flying Tankers Inc, Port Alberni, BC keeping c/r C-FLYK.

    8 June 2007

    Civil registration, C-FLYK, cancelled.

    29 June 2007

    To Coulson Aircrane Ltd, Port Alberni, BC with new c/r C-FLYK (JRM 3, 76820).

    17 September 2008


    Photographer: John W. Olafson
    Notes: At Sproat Lake

    Based at Coulson Aviation, Sproat Lake, Port Alberni, BC.
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    16 September 2012


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At Sproat Lake

    9 February 2025

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from Port Alberni, BC, to Alemeda, CA.

    9 February 2025


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed arriving over the Golden Gate Bridge from Crissy Field East Beach in San Francisco, CA.

    9 February 2025


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed in the seaplane lagoon at the former NAS Alameda in Alameda, CA.

    9 February 2025


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed in the seaplane lagoon at the former NAS Alameda in Alameda, CA.

    9 February 2025


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed in the seaplane lagoon at the former NAS Alameda in Alameda, CA.

    10 February 2025

    Last flight.
    Flown from Alemeda to a lake in Arizona near Tucson.

    The airframe is to be disassembled and moved by truck to the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.
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