Boneyard, A Plane’s Graveyard

The Southern California Logistics Airport is a public airport located in the city of Victorville in San Bernardino County. The facility was George Air Force Base between 1941 to 1992 and was used as a front-line United States Air Force base

Graveyard is not only a burial ground for human; but it is also a place where worn-out or obsolete equipment or objects are kept.

And there are an aviation graveyards in the United States of America which are full of abandoned aeroplanes.

Also known as boneyard, it is in a dry desert to prevent the planes from going rusty.

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This shot is an aerial image of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) located on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. AMARG has approximately $35 billion (£22 billion) worth of aircraft, totalling around 4,500 planes, from all of various commercial and military companies.

The Pinal Airpark is a public-use airport in Pinal County, Arizona. It’s mainly used as a ‘boneyard’ for commercial planes. Old airplanes are stored there with the hope that the desert climate will stop them from rusting in case the aircraft is needed to fly again. However, the majority of aircraft taken to Pinal Airpark are scrapped

Another major aircraft ‘boneyard’ is the Mojave Air and Space Port, also known as the Civilian Aerospace Test Center, in California. Numerous large Boeing, McDonnell Douglas, Lockheed, and Airbus aircraft owned by major airlines are currently kept at Mojave.

Major aircraft carriers in the U.S store dozens of passenger planes at the 5,000-acre former Air Force base in Victorville, California. The planes are mix of retired planes and planes that have been temporarily discontinued due to budget constraints. The airport was used in films such as The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Jarhead (2003).

The Roswell International Air Center covers an area of 5,029 acres with two paved runways. The site is the storage facility for many of American Airlines’ retired Airbus A300-600R wide body jetliners. It was previously used to launch stratospheric balloons for Air Force projects and was also used by Felix Baumgartner to launch his record-breaking freefall jump from the stratosphere in October last year.

Major aircraft carriers in the U.S store dozens of passenger planes at the 5,000-acre former Air Force base in Victorville, California. The planes are mix of retired planes and planes that have been temporarily discontinued due to budget constraints. The airport was used in films such as The Sum of All Fears (2002) and Jarhead (2003).

Commercial aircraft sit on the tarmac at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California. In the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks, the airline industry suffered a drop in revenue which resulted in many older airplanes being taken out of service and grounded.

These military planes are stored at the Davis¿Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. The base was named after Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis and Oscar Monthan who died in military aircraft accidents during the First World War. On 16 September 2011 the Base was placed on lockdown and news agencies reported shots had been fired inside the facility. Although the military later said the lockdown was because an armed man entered the base.

This aerial image shows aircraft parked in the Roswell International Air Center, New Mexico. During World War II the facility was known as Roswell Army International Airfield II, and renamed as the Walker Air Force Base during the Cold War. Roswell International Air Center was developed after the closure of Walker Air Force Base on 30 June 1967.

The Roswell International Air Center in New Mexico is more commonly known for the he Roswell UFO incident of 1947. An aircraft supposedly shaped like a disk crashed on a ranch near Roswell on 7 July. Conspiracy theorists claim it was a spacecraft carrying aliens. The craft was apparently taken to the Air Center for tests.