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The Royal Netherlands Navy acquired 17 PBM-5A Mariners at the end of 1955 for service in Netherlands New Guinea. [15] The PBM-5A was an amphibian with retractable landing gear. The engines were 2,100 hp (1,600 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-2800-34. After a series of crashes, the Dutch withdrew their remaining aircraft from use in December 1959. [16]
Martin PBM Mariner The Martin P5M Marlin ( P-5 Marlin after 1962), built by the Glenn L. Martin Company of Middle River, Maryland , is a twin piston-engined flying boat that entered service in 1951, and served into the late 1960s with the United States Navy performing naval patrols.
Martin 162D PBM-3D; Martin 162E PBM-4; Martin 162F PBM-5; Martin 162G PBM-5A; Martin 162Com twin-engine transatlantic transport; Martin 162W twin-engine 45000 lb Navy patrol bomber; Martin 163 four-engine long-range commercial ocean transport; Martin 164 four-engine, 27500 lb bomber; Martin 165 twin-engine bomber; Martin 166 export version of B ...
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The PBM flying boats were eventually replaced by Martin P5M Marlin which were in turn replaced by the Grumman HU-16 Albatross in 1961. The detachment moved from the Naval Air Station Bermuda to Kindley Air Force Base in November 1963 as a result of the US Navy making the same move.
Manufacturer: Martin Designation: PBM Official Nickname: Mariner Notes: Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive. Date: circa 1945
English: The wreckage and survivors of the 30 December 1946 crash of a United States Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner (BuNo 59098, callsign "George 1") on Thurston Island, Antarctica, photographed from another U.S. Navy PBM Mariner during search and rescue operations on 11 January 1947.
The Glenn L. Martin Company, also known as The Martin Company from 1917 to 1961, was an American aircraft and aerospace manufacturing company founded by aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin. The Martin Company produced many important aircraft for the defense of the US and allies, especially during World War II and the Cold War .