Aircraft Boneyards
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- joefremont
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Aircraft Boneyards
Out in the desert in places like Tuscon Arizona and Mohave California are some airport where unused aircraft are stored before they are either returned to service or scrapped. Are there other places like this around the world where idle aircraft are stored?
I've sworn an oath of solitude until the pestilence is purged from the lands.
- CAPFlyer
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Roswell, New Mexico, Kingman, Arizona, and Amarillo, Texas, also have boneyards. There is a small boneyard/scrap dealer/salvage company on the west side of the old Stapleton Airport (can't remember the name of the place), and another called Dallas Air Salvage just east of Lancaster Municipal (KLNC) that primarily deal in wrecked aircraft (salvaging, examining, parting-out, etc) although they have recovered complete aircraft for return to service in the past (DAS has a great story of how they got a DC-3 off a sand bar in the middle of a creek in Tennessee some years ago that had to make an emergency landing after running out of fuel).
There's one at the end of runway 15 in Khartoum... as well. Africa is full of them, apparently.
Here's a good site for US ones... http://www.johnweeks.com/boneyard/
Here's a good site for US ones... http://www.johnweeks.com/boneyard/
Mike Wilson