PBM-3C/D Mariner Scale Model (Free Shipping)

Item#: APBMT

MSRP Price: $231.95

Factory Direct Price: $159.95

Wing Span: 20.00
Length: 13.25

Manufacturer: Glenn L. Martin Company

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Introducing Factory Direct Models PBM-3C/D Mariner Military Airplane Model, This Model Airplane Replica was hand crafted with absolute precision using the finest Philippine Mahogany. Working from our library of blueprints, reference materials and their photographs, Factory Direct Models master artisans recreated this historic military warplane into an incredibly desktop display model.

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PBM-3C/D Mariner History:

Martin, in close competition with Consolidated and other firms, could not afford the time to construct a full-scale prototype and decided to risk the Navy's disapproval by altering the plans for the 1/4 scale Model 160 and building it as a 3/8 scale Model 162.In the meantime, Martin's management realized that four-engined patrol bombers were not likely to be cost-effective in the Navy's eyes and revised the Model 160 into the two-engined Model 162.Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company competed with the Consolidated Aircraft Company throughout the early 1930s for new Navy patrol aircraft contracts.

The Martin flying boat was a more advanced aircraft than the Catalina, but the PBM would not displace the PBY during World War II and would historically end up in the Catalina's shadow. Martin, not having to bear the burden of prototype development, underbid Consolidated and was awarded a contract for nine machines, designated the "Model 120 P3M-1". Martin continued test flights on the aircraft until November 1943, when the Old Lady was passed on to the Navy.

For example, the Mariner was 52 percent heavier and had 58 percent more power than the Catalina, but the two aircraft had about the same wing and drag areas.This particular wing-engine arrangement was intended to minimize spray passage through the propellers and, together with the relatively deep hull, served as an alternate to the shallow hull and pylon wing mounting of the PBY. In the years of World War II, a worthy stablemate of the workhorse Catalina was the Martin PBM Mariner series of patrol boats. Though less numerous than the famous PBY Catalina, Mariners played important roles both in World War II and Korea. Mariners built prior to 1946 were flying boats, and all that followed became amphibious with the addition of the retractable tricycle landing gear.

The PBM-3 to a large extent supplanted the older Consolidated PBY Catalina, at least in front-line service, towards 1945. some five-hundred Mariners were still in service during the Korean War in 1950-53. A total of 1,235 Mariners were delivered during World War Two, and production finally ended in April 1949.

The follow-on aircraft to the PBM Mariner was the Martin P5M Marlin which was designed to hunt the large USSR submarine fleet.The twin-engine Martin PBM Mariner flying boats, much larger than the PBY Catalinas, filled an important need during the second World War and were used for many years following the end of the war. It turned out to be the last flying boat in the U.S. Navy inventory and the last production aircraft built by Martin.

Production of the Mariner totaled 1,366 up to 1947, and the type served mainly in the Pacific, remaining in service past the Korean War (1950-53) in a number of first and second roles. The Mariner was overshadowed by the numerically superior Consolidated PBY, but was a superior machine offering better performance with less vulnerability.Originating from a 1937 requirement for a patrol flying boat, the XPBM-1 first flew in February 1939, with 1,600-hp R-2600-6 radial, bomb bay in the two engines nacelles, and retractable stabilizing floats.