Abandoned Planes - Air Force Boneyard 2024 - Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

Abandoned Planes - Air Force Boneyard 2024 - Davis-Monthan Air Force Base - Guided Tour by Drone

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@situation_zero 10 ай бұрын

Tell us if you've ever been to the Davis-Montham boneyard.

@briancooper2112 3 ай бұрын

Yes. It's by Pima Air Muesum.

@maxstetsenko9615 6 ай бұрын

A couple of points in your narration. A complete list of all aircraft and their serial numbers stored at Davis Monthon is available from the Davis Monthon web site and is updated monthly. Two, The B-52 wings are removed as per the Salt II agreement to limit nuclear bomber forces between the USA and Russia. They are left like that so so Russian satellites can see them.

@SweetSwineOMine 3 ай бұрын

I was always in awe of the boneyard as a kid. I lived in Benson and would go to Tucson regularly. I also enjoyed the movie, "The Wraith", which included scenes from the boneyard.

@markantoniotti4857 2 ай бұрын

I worked at the boneyard for 33 yrs on pretty much laid hands on every a/c out there. It was a great career and an honor to be able to work on and get parts out of these a/c to support live a/c.

@stephenmaksoud110 2 ай бұрын

How many Tomcats are left airframes intact?

@garymathena2125 5 ай бұрын

They are NOT abandoned, they are maintained. It's so sad seeing them there like that.

@bellablue6818 2 ай бұрын

The aerial footage doesn’t even do justice to how massive these are! My grandmother lived in that neighborhood across from the boneyard and back in the day you could walk around it and touch the planes.

@robertherron5997 Ай бұрын

Would liked to have toured the boneyard in 2023 when I was in the area but the tours were stopped during the pandemic. There are Navy aircraft stored there also. I spent most of my 20 years in the NAVY flying on the P3 ORION of which there are many there. The aircraft is no longer flown by much of the active NAVY VP forces but continues to fly in specialized squadrons.

@briancooper2112 3 ай бұрын

The climate were these planes are stored are in a climate that is the best location for these warriors.

@briancooper2112 3 ай бұрын

The B52G had wings and body of plane due to treaty signed by US and Russia who have broken the treaty. This facility started after ww2.

@Kipp-cc2lx Ай бұрын

The chopped up B52’s are dead. They are left like that so the Russians can see them as there satellites pass over . This is due to the treaty mentioned above. After a set amount of time the hulks are scraped , and this is after all the useable parts have been removed. But the B-52 fleet as a whole may reach close to a total of 100 years in service if the present plans for the fleet remain unchanged. Only two B-52’s have been resurrected from the bone yard. There are about 72 B-52H aircraft in service today. There were about 744 of the bombers manufactured from 1952 thru 1962. Looks like we got our money worth on the”BUFF”. What an amazing airplane.