Craig Smith is KGUN 9's Southeast side reporter. Send your story ideas to Craig at [email protected].
TUCSON, Ariz. — We are here in the desert, but Pima Air and Space Museum will be home to one of the biggest flying boat s ever built.There are bigger flying boat s, like Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose but the Martin Mars is the largest flying boat that was ever in routine use.
The U.S. Navy bought five of the giant planes during World War Two. The Navy used them as long range cargo carriers. Two of the planes survived. ACanadian company called Coulson Aviation used the huge planes as fire tankers. Now the company has retired the planes and decided Pima Air and Space will be a good home for one of them.Craig Smith is a reporter for KGUN 9. With more than 40 years of reporting in cities like Tampa, Houston and Austin, Craig has covered more than 40 Space Shuttle launches and covered historic hurricanes like Katrina, Ivan, Andrew and Hugo.
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