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13 cze 2021 · The Arizona Plane Graveyard (Tucson Boneyard) no longer offers on-base tours. How to see the planes using nearby roads - NEW for 2024!
The massive tails of retired and stored military aircraft peeping over the top of Kolb Road's steeped walls is a familiar sight for most people in Tucson. But most people don't know about the many functions of the so-called Boneyard beyond that of a cemetery for airplanes that are no longer in use. Formally known…
11 sie 2024 · The 309 th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group or ( AMARG ) is located at the Davis-Monthan Air Force base near Tucson, Arizona. Military aircraft have been arriving there for storage and dismantling since the end of World War II.
10 lis 2019 · Tucson was chosen for its dry desert air — perfect for preventing corrosion — and hard caliche soil capable of supporting heavy airplanes without the need for thousands of acres of concrete.
As Air Force, Navy and Marine planes become obsolete and need to be disposed of, or saved for future return to service, they are stored in the largest airplane boneyard in the world, in the Arizona desert. The storage facility is operated by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group AMARG at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.
Aerial view of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and AMARG airplane boneyard in Tucson, Arizona with rows of C-141 Starlifters, B-1B Lancers and F-111 Aardvarks in storage
They offer climate-controlled motorcoaches with an experienced, friendly docent on board to narrate the tour of the 4,000+ aircraft from the U.S. Air Force, Navy-Marine Corps, Army, Coast Guard, and several federal agencies including NASA in varying degrees of storage, being regenerated or recycled. All nationalities are welcome on the tour.
