Officially called the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) and located on Davis Monthan Air Base near Tucson, AZ it is colloquially known as the Boneyard. The US military use it to store surplus or retired aircraft (from all services), maintain them in a state so they can be returned to active service, modified to become target aircraft or broken down for spares for either the US military or international customers.

Because of the atmospheric conditions there is little to no corrosion. The aircraft are wrapped in a special material to conserve them until they are required in the future.

The Boneyard

Apparently there is over 4200 aircraft stored there but it certainly seems like more. They just seem to stretch on and on. We did a bus tour through the facility and then walked around a small museum just outside the base that contained other, interesting aircraft. So many aircraft lined up next to each other is certainly a sight to see.

Carol in front of a B-52		A Super Guppy, used by NASA to transport components for the Apollo program	Carol in her element - walking among aircraft!!!!	One for Dad - an old Neptune
A very different looking heavy life helicopter		SR-71 Blackbird