Martin Mars Caroline Mars

Martin JRM-2 Mars BuNo 76824 named Caroline Mars was delivered to the USN on 10 May 1948 and assigned to VR-2 at NAS Alameda.

In 1959 it was sold to a Canadian company, Forest Industries Flying Tankers (FIFT), and converted to a forest fire fighting aircraft and registered CF-LYM. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair during Typhoon Freda at Victoria, Canada on 12 October 1962.