There's lots of F-16's and F-15's parked at Davis-Monthan, no reason to build new ones if you're not buying F-35's and F-22's.
There's lots of F-16's and F-15's parked at Davis-Monthan, no reason to build new ones if you're not buying F-35's and F-22's.
I would assume we have hundreds of all sorts of aircraft parked at that base. Question is though how many are serviceable.
The reason the F-15s and F-16s are at AMARK to begin with, is that they are tired (and occasionally breaking up in flight).
Quite a few F4 Phantom II’s parked there as well... Quite a few interesting aircraft... pretty cool!
I’ve never understood why military and commercial planes don’t have shrink-wrap, whatever, over their surfaces while in mothball.
The sun must decimate the aluminum and other surfaces of these multi million $ aircraft.
Restore them to pristine flying condition, those old early Eagles, Vipers, Hornets, Rhinos, Skyhawks and even old BUFFs to defend CONUS, since they don’t have the stealth and recruit junior but well-trained early 20s pilots to man them.