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.
shooftie 
#1 by Angus on August 12, 2024 - 7:12 pm
Thanks Alistair – end of an era!
#2 by albell on August 12, 2024 - 8:49 pm
Yeah angus, had more of an effect than I imagined it would. Almost missed it, got word late that schedule changed and we had to run down property to see. There were folk ready at the pat bay park parking lot from noon that day.
Weather was perfect , wind light from se. The snowbirds added the perfect amount of drama . And so many boats in the bay