Airplane boneyard

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Commercial aircraft at one of the airplane 'boneyards' in Southern California

We're all familiar with the idea of old cars going off to the scrap-yard when they've reached their "use by" date. Whenever we board a plane headed off on a holiday jaunt, how many of us think about what

Housing the largest aircraft and missile facility around the globe, the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson is a trove of aviation history. The Arizona boneyard is responsible for nearly 4,000 vehicles that are maintained, recycled for parts, and stored across miles of the dry, desert landscape. Photographer Bernhard Lang (previously) visited the site recently to document the aircraft, which are organized in neat rows and grouped by model. More

8 DHL Express Boeing 727s now parked in the desert. This plane was delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) on June 20 1974 and flew until it...

I think Northwest is dominating overhere.... - Photo taken at Marana - Pinal Airpark (Silver Bell AHP / Marana AFB / AAF) (MZJ) in Arizona, USA on March 23, 2007.

Graveyard B-747

The Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, USA contains an aircraft boneyard with more than 150 retired planes. Because the demand for jumbo jets has dropped significantly in the last two decades in favor of smaller, more affordable twin-engine planes, many large aircrafts such as Boeing 747s have been retired. The dry conditions in Victorville – located on the edge of the Mojave Desert – limits the corrosion of metal, meaning planes can be stored here for years…

Photo taken at Homestead - Dade County-Homestead Regional (Homestead AFB) (HST / KHST) in Florida, USA on July 22, 1974.

Boeing, Boeing Gone... Aircraft graveyard

One of the many airplane boneyards near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Russian airplane graveyard, Shindand Afghanistan

On 4 April 1978, SN Boeing 737-229C OO-SDH operated training flight with 1 instructor and 2 students. During touch-and-go at 18 :07, Gosselies apt, birds were ingested as the airplane was rotating. Instructor took over control and decided to abort takeoff. There was insufficient runway length available so plane overran, struck antennas and skidded. The right main gear collapsed and no. 2 engine was torn off in the slide. Aircraft came to rest 300m past runway end and was destroyed by fire.