The aircraft the F-16 C/D Block 52ID American aid drawn from Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard in Tucson. What is this place?
This place was indeed inhabited thousands of aircraft of various types. Located in Tucson, Arizona, United States (USA). This place is one of the facilities belonging to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) and used for aircraft graveyards.
Cemetery complex termed The Boneyard is worth USD35 billion (Rp326 trillion) and runs as far as 1,052 hectares. Before it was named The Boneyard, a funeral in Tucson, Arizona is not named. According to officials of the AMARG Boneyard, The save 4,200 fighters and 40 other air transportation.
The Boneyard is not mysterious cemetery. The existence of this burial area already known 60 years ago. Super large size equal to 1,300 point throwing a pitch in a game of American football.
Among the thousands of parked aircraft, it looks kind of fighter planes of the B-52. This historic aircraft ever carried an army bombing when the cold war raged. Since 1990, a B-52 aircraft ceased broadcasting.
The u.s. military used the name David-Monthan Air Force Base in memory of two of the original World War I pilots Tucson, Lieutenant Samuel h. Davis and Oscar Monthan. Both were killed in a plane crash. Davis died in a plane crash in Florida, while the Monthan died in Hawaii in 1924.
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low humidity 10%-20%, little rainfall, and high altitude 2,550 feet
allow the aircraft to be naturally preserved for cannibalization or
possibility of reuse.
In May 1946, more than 600 B-29 Superfortresses and 200 C-47 Skytrains were moved to Davis-Monthan. Some are retained and are back in action in the war of Korea.
In February 1956, the first Convair B-36 Peacemaker arrived at Davis Monthan AFB for scrapping. All this will finally be 384 fleet dismantled except for four the rest of the B-36 was saved for the air museum.
In 1965, the Defense Department decided to close the storage facility in Phoenix, Litchfield Park and consolidate the surplus Navy air fleet to Davis-Monthan. Along with these steps, the name of the 704th Air Force Storage and Disposition Group was transformed into the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC).
In early 1965, aircraft from Litchfield Park began to move to Tucson, largely driven by the truck a cheaper alternative than having to remove the cover of the plane then flew on its own.
The
last B-47 jet bomber air force retired at the end of 1969 and the
entire fleet was dismantled at Davis Monthan will stay at around 30 –
except for the Stratojets were exhibited at the museum. In 1985, the
name of the facility was changed again, from MASDC to Aerospace
Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC). In the 1990s the 365
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B-52 Stratofortress surplus bombers unloaded at that facility. Another role of the AMARG is to support programs change the old fighter jets, such as the F-4 Phantom II and F-16 aerial target drone, become used to the exercise.
AMARG using official code storage.
The code "1000" aircraft is stored for long term storage with full treatment for a while called to active service again. The aircraft "represerved" every four years.
The
code "2000" is available for aircraft parts that could still use the
parts to take care of the aircraft that are still active.
Kpde "3000" Aircraft stored in conditions can be flown at any time, temporary storage; waiting for a transfer to another unit, sold to other countries, or reclassification to the three other types.
The code "4000" aircraft over the needs of the DoD. Usually sold will be destroyed and recycled.
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