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18 Σεπ 2014 · What happens when an aircraft is no longer needed? In the desert dry of the south-western US, vast ‘boneyards’ are homes to thousands of aircraft.
An aircraft boneyard or aircraft graveyard is a storage area for aircraft which are retired from service. Most aircraft at boneyards are either kept for storage continuing to receive some maintenance or parts of the aircraft are removed for reuse or resale and the aircraft are scrapped.
Airliner "boneyards" in the deserts of the State of Arizona serve several functions: temporary storage, maintenance, parts reclamation, and scrapping. Four major airplane boneyards are located in Arizona, as shown in the map below.
The City of Mojave is located in the California desert about 95 miles north of Los Angeles, near Edwards Air Force Base, on Highway 58 between Barstow and Bakersfield. The Mojave Airport was first opened in 1935 as a small, rural airfield serving the local gold and silver mining industry.
28 Φεβ 2021 · The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group stores thousands of retired military, forest service, and NASA aircraft in the Arizona desert.
The Tucson Chamber of Commerce established the nation's first municipally-owned airfield in 1919 in the dry, Arizona desert. In 1927 the airfield was moved to a site southeast of town and dedicated as Davis-Monthan Landing Field, then the largest municipal airport in the United States.
30 Μαρ 2017 · During my visit, about 124 airliners currently rest on this swath of desert, some with their engines swaddled in mylar as protection until the owner can get them back into rotation—as is the case...
