“Haunting aerial photographs from Arizona's aircraft boneyard show thousands of defunct airplanes laid out in meticulous rows in what may be their final resting place along the desert floor…”

Daily Mail article
https://mol.im/a/10833231

Ah Tucson! My home state. Always loved driving by the boneyard and seeing the planes. My brother just got hired to work at the boneyard and I'm kind of expecting some kind of up close and personal tour somewhere down the road...

Thanks for sharing. I've seen this from the air but wasn't aware I could tour it for a nominal price. Another thing for the old bucket list.
Mike

I was there a few years ago. There is a bus tour that goes thru the boneyard, I recommend it.

Across the street is the PIMA Air and Space Museum, I highly recommend visiting that too, I spent 2 days there and would go back in a heartbeat.

As a former SAC member, I hate seeing the dismantled B-52s.

I've driven by the Boneyard several times but never went in. I wasn't aware one could visit it.

Technically, Arizona is my home state (I was born at Bartlett Dam) but I've never lived there beyond my first year (family moved on when the dam was finished).

Word of advice: If you want to tour the location, make your reservations MONTHS in advance!!!

I've viewed the boneyard from outside the gate and if you plan ahead you can arrange a tour through the boneyard with the Pima air and space museum. The Pima Air and Space museum is great also and worth the time and money to checkout if you're in the area. There are all sorts of different aircraft both military and civilian, fixed wing and rotary wing and from different countries. Great way to spend and afternoon if you're a fan of aircraft.

I have card access to DMAFB and have been through the boneyard (AMARG) and DLA disposal staging on numerous occasions looking for things

the Boneyard is pretty impressive, the bus tour doesn't stop and you don't see everything, but it gives you a good feel for whats there

recently B1's started arriving for disposal - they're not being preserved for regeneration at some point in the future

Pima Air and Space is a great museum - where else can you walk up and fondle a Blackbird and kick the tires...certainly not at the Smithsonian...

Ah yes, the DM AFB Boneyard in Tucson. It's nice to see where our tax monies went many years ago.

We frequently went to DM on a weekly basis until 2009. We used to watch them chopping up the B52 bones when the Russian photo satellite was overhead. At one time I was astonished at the number of A10 airframes stored there, then the numbers were reduced.

I’m not a man of many wants…but, damn, I would love to have an A-10 in my backyard. I’d rig up a sound system to make the engine and gun sounds…and then just “take out tanks” all day long.

That B-36 in the second photo at 7:30 is a rare bird.

A few years back I spent a week working there pulling out 3 H-60s they had in prez in AMARG. In my spare time I'd roam around just checking out the aircraft.
I even found one of the aircraft I deployed with during Desert Storm.

The Boneyard is a national treasure. I flew in to DM on a B-25 bomber (out of Phoenix) for a ribbon-cutting ceremony (we named our ops center after Jimmy Doolittle). The second day, we flew out and had to orbit to wait for the right time to over-fly the ceremony. The best part of that whole flight was orbiting over the Boneyard for about 20 minutes. I had was glued to the window the entire time. . .

Pima is a great museum, but the boneyard is really unique.

Weirdest thing I saw in the boneyard was a gondola from a dirigible (WWII era). I assume it was just parked there waiting for it to be allocated to a museum somewhere. They also had some MiG-21s and D-21 drones.

I've always wanted to go there. Thanks for sharing.

I was there in 1981 or 1982 on a Polo Hat Exercise before they disabled the Titan sites.

It is inspiring to see these young people that work 24 hours a day to protect this country. I also flew as an observer on a B-52 out of K.I.Sawyer. The oldest on that crew was 26.

quote:

Originally posted by 41:
I was there in 1981 or 1982 on a Polo Hat Exercise before they disabled the Titan sites...

Except for 571-7, which is well maintained as a museum.

https://titanmissilemuseum.org/

The tour is not listed now, but several years ago I got the five hour top to bottom tour led by none other than volunteer Chuck Penson, who wrote this fine book:

https://titan2handbook.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Titan-I...werful/dp/B004U8PPQ2