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The 'boneyard': Where airlines send old planes to be scrapped
The “boneyard” is the term given to aircraft storage facilities where out-of-use planes are sent to be sold, stored or scrapped. Most are in arid locations. The one here in New Mexico – officially the Roswell International Air Center – is the preferred facility for American. (www.usatoday.com) More...
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Reminds me of the boneyard at Marana, near Tucson, AZ.......took a B747-300 in there once after a trans-Pacific ferry from Jakarta, Indonesia.
Always a treat to see the "oldies". Been in to Victorville a few times and every pilot should experience a runway 3 miles long......no flaps no problem.....lol
Lots of history here. Worth a stop if your the area.
There are boneyards for every conceivable means of transportation. Those that scrap planes just hit a little closer to home for FA users.
I always get a good laugh at those who vote coments down based on the poster and not the comment. I know who you are. Please grow up.
So for the aerospace nuts out there, as opposed to the airplane tire kicker nuts, if you ever find yourself in Tucson! Go to the Pima Air & Space Museum, or do the Davis Monthan thing first and then do Pima. Then do the Titan Missle Museum south of Tucson, and think about that for a while. Remember the siren goin off and going in the hall for the "crash position" in school in the 50's and 60's. That's precisely what that was all about. The Twinkies need not apply. It's not in the database. And then there are several airliner boneyards that are an easy drive, but who cares? And it's a dry heat! Or go in the winter, sometimes they don't have one. Cheers.
