Another wave of aircraft arrived at the boneyards in the late 1960s and early 1970s as the classic prop airliners were sent out to pasture in favor of the early jet passenger planes. Although the popular image is of an Elephant Graveyard of airplanes, with rusty propellers creaking in the wind, the Boneyard is actually a busy place. Most will never fly again.Attack choppers are cocooned against the desert sun.C-130 military transports, sealed to keep out dust and desert critters. ARM is located at 5080 E. Nebraska, The facility is located adjacent to the Museum at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. You can find a list of all our aircrafts in our Museum here. Tour Length is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, but tour time depends on local traffic and base traffic conditions. The company dismantles, transports, refurbishes and seeks replacement parts for both government and civilian aircraft, for businesses and individuals internationally. Aircraft Boneyard Tour.

The tour is limited to 3 hours due to hot weather conditions. And the last Qantas 747 flew to Mojave in July of 2020 for storage.This website includes coverage of several major storage, maintenance and Also included are reports on airliners in storage at the Updates have been made in March of 2020 on our article on the As anyone that flies, has ties to the aviation industry, or watches TV knows, the worldwide outbreak of the Corona Virus has had a major negative impact on airlines and their fleets, worldwide. Check out our recent article, Thank you! The Aircraft Boneyard outside of Tucson is a legendary roadside destination: over 4,000 mothballed aircraft baking in the sun, stretched across four square miles of Arizona desert. By the summer of 1945, sales-storage depots, or "After WWII, military aircraft had three possible fates: 1) sale to a private entity, 2) If a plane was not sold at boneyards such as those at Newer aircraft such as the B-29 Superfortress were held in Today, surplus U.S. military planes are stored in the This website is an online resource about the facilities engaged in the storage, reclamation and disassembly of aircraft.We do not own or operate an airplane boneyard, or have an affiliation with any boneyard, the Department of Defense, or any aviation museum.We do not offer tours, and we do not own aircraft or maintain a parts inventory.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 Jetliners eventually reach end-of-life due to airframe wear and/or obsolescence.
Well, today Ed and I did just that with Jim Petty, the Economic Development Director for the airport. Eventually, as airframes wear out and economics change, aircraft are either stored temporarily or removed permanently from service and scrapped at an "To protect airliners during their storage from wind and sun damage, engines and windows are tightly covered with white, reflective materials. Davis-Monthan AFB's role in the storage of military aircraft began after World War II, and continues today. And on that note, please nominate your favorite local business that could use some love right now: We’re talking more than 4,000 old military and NASA planes hanging out in the arid Sonoran desert just shy of the Rincon Mountains. Well, less of a creature and more of a contraption.Tours of the boneyard are available on weekdays from the Pima Air and Space Museum, located at 6000 East Valencia Road in Tucson. However, most of the aircraft spend their last days in graveyards forever. Crews are constantly at work either sealing new arrivals against the elements, disassembling other planes for parts, or trucking gutted aircraft to an on-site smelter. Sometimes the retired machines can get a second life under another airline name. The Mojave Air & Space Port does not offer tours to the public. Monica is a staff writer for Only In Your State, photo editor for The Mesa Legend, and previously a staff writer for The Navajo Post. Tickets cost $7 ($4 for children 12 and under). Once peace was assured, the U.S. military had a huge surplus of aircraft. While you can drive through some of the the streets and roads at SCLA, most business and industry areas are restricted. Get more stories delivered right to your email.Thank you! The industrial park is a vibrant commercial community, and home to more than 70 businesses in diverse fields, including the temporary storage of airliners.No organized tours are available at the Kingman Airport.

No organized tours are available. Seats are available on a "first come first serve" basis. In fact, it’s the largest of its kind in the world!Some are merely kept around for spare parts, others are repaired for display, and others still are just waiting to fly again.The humidity is low year-round (to prevent mold), there are few rainy days (to prevent rust or floating away), and the soil type is sturdy enough to prevent the planes from sinking into the dirt during storage or moving.While most of the aircraft stored long-term are painted white to reflect the hot desert sun, this one saw new life as an artist’s canvas. Tours of the boneyard are available on weekdays from the Pima Air and Space Museum, located at 6000 East Valencia Road in Tucson.