Later, during night, is to be hauled up slip and moved across the road to airport, and the B.C. Aviation Museum

Got some pics with camera and iPhone. Here are a couple of phone vids. Sorry about the framing etc, I was going back and forth from dig cam to iPhone and also trying to experience the moment.

I’ll edit and post more pics later .

Update 12/08/2024. Plane still moored in the bay. I guess I was wrong about haul out time

Update again, local rag says…

The aircraft is big — really big. It is 120 feet long with a 200-foot wingspan and has the ability to drop 25,000 litres of water in one pass. Moving it from the water to the museum will take several days.

First, the aircraft will have beaching gears (wheels) attached and be “de-watered” and winched up a ramp and onto a concrete apron.

Between Aug. 19 and 23, Nickel Brothers Moving will lift the Hawaii Mars onto a heavy-haul trailer, and when airport operations have ceased for the night, move the aircraft through the airport lands.

That will require fencing, light posts and power poles along the route to be moved out of the way.