Hayman Tam submitted this photo with a note: “I was so pleased to be able to capture the visit of the Philippine Mars to San Francisco in January 2025. I was too far away to get good shots of the landing, I chose a different locale — Treasure Island — for departure day. I had a 50/50 chance that the takeoff would be towards me and I scored big time. This leg of the flight was supposed to go to San Diego but they made a real-time decision to head straight to Arizona, making this the final flight of this historic seaplane, which found a new home at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson.”
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Because there is no place for it to land in Tucson, it landed on Lake Pleasant north of PHX and is being dismantled there and trucked to Tucson. Quite the venture!