The military aircraft boneyard of the Air Force Material Command’s 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group is on Coolidge Street, at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base, in the city of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Parked and out of use for various reasons are over 4,400 aircraft facing various stages of decay, dismantling, salvaging and disposal. The Boneyard is noted as the biggest aircraft storage and preservation around the globe and is the sole repository for out of service aircraft for all of the United States branches of government. Initially beginning in 1946 for the housing of extra Department of...
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