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Nicholas A. Veronico, Betty S. Veronico
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The United States military stores more than 4,000 aircraft in the
Arizona desert at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration
Group (AMARG) facility adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
Known as the Boneyard, this facility is much more than a place
where aerospace vehicles come to die. Here some aircraft are
maintained in both short- and long-term storage, while others serve
as a parts inventory on the wing holding valuable spare parts in
known locations ready to be harvested, overhauled, and returned to
the fleet when needed. When an aircraft has yielded all the parts
necessary to keep its brethren in the air, its carcass eventually
meets the scrapper's torch. AMARG's storage rows are home to
massive fleets of F-15, F-16, and F/A-18 fighters, aerial
refuelling tankers, C-130 and C-5 transports, helicopters of
varying sizes, and bombers from the frontline B-1 to B-52s that are
much older than the pilots flying them around the globe today.
Among the rows are special use aircraft including the AWACS, P-3
maritime patrol bombers, aeromedical evacuation aircraft, and
reconnaissance planes that serve a variety of missions, along with
celebrity aircraft such as MiG killers that dominated the skies in
aerial combat. As well as bringing the reader up to date with
recent activities at AMARG, including the intake of new aircraft
types, regeneration and the return to the fleet of aircraft
formerly in storage, this book presents new, never-before-seen
images that provide a visual tour of the Boneyard.
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