James Cairn Mars

James Cairn Mars (March 8, 1875 - July 25, 1944), also known Bud Mars and the Curtiss Daredevil, was an aviation pioneer. He was the eleventh pilot licensed in the United States. As a balloonist, he was a student of Thomas Scott Baldwin, and as an airplane pilot, of Glenn Curtiss.

On December 31, 1910, Mars made the first airplane flight in Hawaii on a Curtiss B18 biplane.

He was credited in 1911 with being the first pilot to bring aviation to the Far East, although flights had been made in both Japan and Vietnam in late 1910. Mars was the first to fly in both the Philippines and Korea.

While in Japan, he took Hirohito, future Emperor of Japan, on his first airplane flight.

Mars died on July 25, 1944, in Los Angeles, California.