British Columbia Aviation Museum, Aviation museum at Victoria International Airport, Canada

The British Columbia Aviation Museum is an aviation museum at Victoria International Airport in British Columbia, Canada, housed across two hangars with aircraft, engines, photographs, and models on display. The collection covers aircraft from different periods of regional flight history.

The museum's collection grew through several notable acquisitions. In September 2018 it acquired Avro Lancaster FM104, one of only 17 surviving Lancasters worldwide, now under restoration to airworthy status in post-war search-and-rescue configuration. A Grumman S2F Tracker arrived in January 2021, a CF-104 in July 2023, and two Piasecki H-21s that September. In March 2024 the museum announced it was acquiring the Hawaii Mars flying boat, which arrived on August 11, 2024.

The Memorial Room displays uniforms and personal items from Canadian military pilots who served in different air forces. Visitors can look at these objects up close and get a concrete sense of what life was like for those pilots.

The museum sits right next to Victoria International Airport and is easy to reach by car. Since the exhibits are inside hangars, wearing warmer layers in cooler weather makes the visit more comfortable, and it is worth checking the opening hours before you go.

The Hawaii Mars arrived at the museum on 11 August 2024 and was being prepared to open to the public on 28 September 2024. The museum announced the acquisition in March 2024, taking the flying boat from Coulson Aviation. It is one of two surviving Martin Mars aircraft.