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The world' s largest operating flying boat can be bought for about the price of a P-51 Mustang.

Do you have a giant 70-year-old fire engine seaplane on your wish list? No. When China launches its big new multi-role amphibious, the biggest ever fleets - the Martin JRM Mars from World War II - are offered for sale. Used by the US Navy until the mid-1950s, the plane was then purchased as excess by a Canada-based fire fighting modification firm.

Having been used in tank servicing for years, they were purchased by Coulson Flying Tankers Inc. of Canada. Initially conceived as a freighter and fighter plane with a 200-foot span and a maximum take-off mass of 165,000 lbs, Mars was the biggest Allies seaplane ever constructed during the Second World War.

When Mars was in operation, its air force missions were suspended and the planes were to be used primarily as transporters. Only seven of the large flyboats were constructed, of which only two have survived today; the Martian II and the Philippine Mars, both of which are in Coulson's possession.

Mars has flown for fire extinguishing missions for centuries from its scenic bases at Sproat Lake, British Columbia, Hawaii Mars II and Philippines. But Mars can do something its present-day followers cannot do: they can absorb huge amounts of moisture in no time at all. Flying over the surfaces of 60 knot river and lake for about 30 seconds is all Mars needs to absorb 7,200 galons of rain.

Every Mars also has a 600 gallon concentrated foaming fuel container that can be sprayed into its charges of liquid fuel. In 2015, the fire was the last fire Martin Mars ever tackled on a very restrictedasis. The British Columbia Wildlife Service had one of the large oil carriers under a short-term agreement where the plane was used five-fold in four individual arsons.

The Caulson was also commissioned in 2015 to instruct test pilot from China in the handling of a large inflatable canoe. Drivers participating in the International Test Pilot School together clocked up 22 working days behind the Hawaii Mars bay. Now that there are no treaties to fulfil, the Coulson crew took Mars to Oshkosh for America's largest flight show, and as you can see, it's a real ace.

Buyers could enter in the hope of returning the ancient airboats to fire duty, possibly with Filipino Martian as a replacement for Martian II-Haiwaii. Although, considering that Caulson believes that these vessels need a new use, this seems doubtful. In addition, the case for fire-fighting airplanes has proved at best poor beyond relocation and infrastructural constraints.

When airplanes do not fly and earn cash, they are very costly to service in a finished or semi-finished condition. And the fact that Mars is 70 years old and has no bases - not to speak of being huge and operating only on sea - makes this much more difficult. Nevertheless, someone with deeper bags could buy the plane and turn at least one of them into a floating action castle.

Another problem, however, is that these planes are not Amphibian; they rely on the use of waters for operation and have to be wound on land for maintenance. Nevertheless, it would be quite astonishing to have an ancient villa in flight. The last few Martin Mars samples can best be used as advertising material, rather than being packed into a local art gallery or getting back to work and extinguishing a fire.

Enterprises such as Red Bull and Breitling have strongly reinvested as brands messengers in rare earth treasures and ancient airplanes. Martin Mars, with its enormous reach, its enormous circumference and its sea-side view, could fly around the globe as an interactivity marker. Really, there is no better plane for this kind of work, because Mars can grow right outside the coastal towns instead of being banned to airports.

We' ll keep an eyeball on these fantastic planes and let you know where they end up.