Ungh-huh!
Posted on 02/24/2010 5:01:00 PM PST by Steelfish
The Boneyard: World's 'Biggest' Plane Cemetery Up Close [Pics in URL]
Dubbed The Boneyard, but officially known as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility, this sprawling US airbase is reputed to be the world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Spread across the huge 2,600 acre site, equivalent in size to 1,430 football pitches, is a collection of over 4,000 retired aircraft including nearly every plane the US armed forces have flown since World War II.
Now, for the first time, a series of high resolution satellite images of the four square mile-site have been released by Google Earth. They show in incredible detail the full range of aircraft found at the site.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
It is an awesome and sad sight. Many of us have old friends there.
Drive by this place all the time - truly amazing.
Having driven by the perimeter fence, it is a double take then a sorta like oh-my-gosh...is that what I think I’m seeing?!
It’s interesting to see those F-14s. I had read that they were all going to the shredder to keep any parts out of the hands of the Iranians.
A number of years ago, the Chicago Sun-Times ran an article on the “boneyard.” There was a picture of a row of Army aircraft shown and I found myself trying to read tail numbers with a magnifying glass, to see if an old friend or two was there.
Outside of Tucson?
Is this the area we were discussing yesterday? If so you will enjoy seeing this.
The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)is a United States Air Force aircraft storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Pima Air Museum is close by.
To the north of Tucson is the “commercial” aircraft bone-yard.
Zoom to these coordinates:
Lat 32.174820
Lon -110.843340
Mowed into the grass is the message “HI MOM”
(It is upside down).
Some bored groundskeeper, no doubt.
When I was stationed at DMAFB, the fleet of stored aircraft was over 4,000, and of that, nearly 1,100 were F-4s (if I remember my numbers right). As a matter of fact, they were considering bringing the F-4s out of the mothballs to use as drones.
Ungh-huh!
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It certainly is a hundred percent neater looking than any “auto graveyard” I’ve ever seen, lol.
Skimmed the article, probably many would love to browse through there to see the planes up close.
there are some things google should not publish, like this and the location map of my house.
THey offer tours every day.
GO to the Pima Air Museum and ask for a seat.
Well worth the bucs. Take a hat and water.
Thanks ASOC. I’m a woman and not as interested in traveling to Arizona to see it. Believe it is Arizona, read it earlier and knew it was a ‘hot’ state, lol.
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I have seen TV shows that show them scounging for parts there
Like old warships - old warbirds sometimes refuse to die or outlive their usefulness
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