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Why 3,000 Airplanes Are Stored in the Arizona Desert
Across 2600 acres of Arizona desert lies the world’s largest aircraft boneyard, home to over 3000 planes spanning eight decades of aviation history. From Cold War bombers to modern fighters, every ...
New C-27J Spartan cargo planes ordered by the U.S. Air Force are being delivered … directly to a storage “boneyard” in the Arizona desert. There are reportedly nearly a dozen new Spartans sitting on ...
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The World's 10 Largest Aircraft Boneyards
There are dozens of prominent boneyards around the world where, in some cases, thousands of aircraft are kept, whether to be broken up or left in storage before returning to service. Ideally, an ...
At Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, the Arizona desert heat is the retirement setting for some of our nation's most heralded military aircraft, from bombers and tankers, to fighters like the ...
Tucsonans’ cheerful attachment to Davis-Monthan’s Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, or “the boneyard,” may be rooted in the fact that there simply isn’t another place quite like it. More ...
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