![]() As well some D21 drone are there (they were lunched from special Blackbird planes, but the program was cancelled rapidly due to all kinds of problems) and you can also see some Titan1 and Titan2 ex nuclear rockets. but no more F14 Tomcat, they were all destroyed because the F14 was sold to many countries and some of them are not to friendly anymore, so to void spare parts being sold to those places they destroyed all of them, on the back you can see the B52s cut in parts to follow the peace treaty. More Information is available at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.Ĭlick on the image and Zoom in to view the planes really close up using Google Maps satellite viewĬategories Photos & Travel (pre-covid) Post navigationįor those interesting, all kind of planes are there, Fighters, transportations, tankers…. Tours are given Monday through Friday (excluding US federal holidays) and last approximately one hour. The tour bus boards at the Museum entrance. ![]() You will need to check in at the Pima Air & Space Museum Store no later than 30 minutes prior to tour departure time or your reservation may be subject to cancellation. To make an AMARG tour reservation call PIMA and ask for the reservation desk. Adult tickets are a mere $US 16.50, tours cost extra.Īdvance reservations are strongly recommended to guarantee seating. Public tours of the Boneyard are arranged by the adjacent Pima Air & Space Museum. It also stores inactive Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to carry nuclear warheads The Boneyard doesn’t just store aircraft.Under the terms of the Strategic Arms Reduction talks over 300 B-52 bombers had their wings cut from the fuselage and laid out in the Boneyard as evidence for Soviet satellites passing overhead.In fact the facility is so good at what it does that for every $1 the US government spends operating the facility, it saves or produces $11 The climate at Tucson is friendly to aircraft with hard alkaline soil for them to move around on, low humidity and low rainfall.Some aircraft are stored for possible reuse, metal reclamation and others to be stripped for spare parts eg: Australia used to get parts for it’s F-111 strike aircraft from here.It contains over 4000 aircraft including bombers, fighters like the F15 Eagle and F14 Tomcat, huge military transport planes like the C5a Galaxy, helicopters, jump jets as well as unique prototypes which never made it into service. “The Boneyard” as it is often called was created in 1946 to store some surplus DoD and navy planes but eventually grew to become the storage area for all out-of-service U.S. The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona is the biggest aircraft graveyard in the world.
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