Comments on: Worlds Largest Aircraft Graveyard: Tucson Arizona (USA)

By: patrice

patrice — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:42:45 +0000

Veronica, I don’t think they sell any planes to civilians. Anyway most of the planes overthere are fighting planes or huge tankers. When they sell planes it’s only for recycling purposes and it’s not one but lots of them together and to demolition businesses. But it’s doesn’t cost anything to ask !

By: Veronica

Veronica — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:48:33 +0000

Hi .I want to buy an aircraft. What I want is an old twin engine two seater used as a scout in vietnam.
Can I purchase an aircraft from the bone yard?
A lot of pilots could benefit from buying parts from a boneyard and building their own aircraft.

By: patrice

patrice — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:39:11 +0000

Sebastien

Give a call to “planes of Fame” in Chino (California) they have P51 Mustang, they might know where to find parts.

By: patrice

patrice — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:15:39 +0000

Hi
For those interesting, all kind of planes are there, Fighters, transportations, tankers…. but no more F14 Tomcat, they were all destroyed because the F14 was sold to many countries and some of them are not to friendly anymore, so to void spare parts being sold to those places they destroyed all of them, on the back you can see the B52s cut in parts to follow the peace treaty. As well some D21 drone are there (they were lunched from special Blackbird planes, but the program was cancelled rapidly due to all kinds of problems) and you can also see some Titan1 and Titan2 ex nuclear rockets. There is as well the YC14 (the YC15 is at Edwards AFB in California in front of the west gate of the base)those planes were used for the development of the famous C17 Globemaster.
The site is divided in 2 parts, one side is the storage area and accross the bridge is the boneyard. I’m working on a website only on Davis Monthan Boneyard, I visited 2 times already, I have hundreds of pictures of this breathtaking place.

EDITOR: lucky you, wish I could visit there but it’s far away from Australia.

By: patrice

patrice — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:24:52 +0000

Hi !
There are No commercial airplanes stored in Davis Monthan AFB at all, it’s only for military airplanes. The biggest storage place and graveyard for commercial airliners is in Mojave airport at Mojave in California. I go there every November to visit it, you can tour the graveyard with a little minibus but you are not allowed to take any pictures anymore. I was there 3 weeks ago they are airliners from all over the world stored there, the were actualy cutting a few 747, it’s a very impressive place. As well the airport in Victorville stored commercial airplane, evergreen in Arizona as well but it’s very difficult to see anything there.

By: Sebastien

Sebastien — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:12:38 +0000

Does anyone know where I may find p-51 Mustang wings for sale or p-40 wings. I am trying to build a desk from them
thamks