Hey Russ, you lost roll control of your listing of fate of the seven Mars that were operational.
Of the four brought to BC by Dan McIvor:
- one crashed fighting a fire
- One was wrecked by Typhoon Freda which broke its tiedowns at YYJ, salvaged for parts
- the Hawaii Mars is now at the BC Aviation Museum at YYJ
- your article covers plan to get Philippine Mars to a museum in Pima AZ
USN lost one Mars in a fire well before McIvor bought the remaining four, I forget fate of the other two before McIvor purchased four. I recall one sank but not why. The prototype may have been counted in the seven even though its configuration was quite different. (As you know, the unused nose Coulson has is labelled 8, I forget what I saw in the museum Coulson had at Sproat Lake.)