The airplane boneyard (or graveyard) is a place that many people do not get to see. In a way, it is where planes that have operated for years go to retire. Though the demand for flights has ...

The last operational C-5A Galaxy airlifter in the U.S. Air Force inventory - takeoff at Westover Air Reserve Base, MA - ...

There are dozens of prominent boneyards around the world where, in some cases, thousands of aircraft are kept, whether to be broken up or left in storage before returning to service. Ideally, an ...

The Air Force is recalling a bomber sent to a desert retirement back to active duty. “Lancelot” enjoyed a brief vacation in Arizona before a vacancy in the fleet needed filling. The bomber is ...

Airborne Command and Control Squadron 123 “Screwtops” have retired the E-2C to continue transition to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. VAW-123 sent two of its four remaining E-2C Hawkeye AEW&C (Airborne ...

From the air, they look like toys scattered across a giant sandbox—hundreds of airliners slotted nose to tail beneath the glare of a pitiless desert sun. There are the lumbering, humpbacked 747s ...

An A-10 at Davis-Monthan AFB taxis toward the boneyard on Feb. 6, 2024. (Staff Sgt. Nicholas Ross/U.S. Air Force) The first set of A-10 Warthogs from the 355th Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, ...

Kathleen Allen Apr 20, 2017 Apr 20, 2017 Updated May 8, 2017 Aircraft history is scattered all over a big dirt lot in southeast Tucson. And once a month, you can explore it. Boneyard Safari, founded ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has restored a previously mothballed Boeing B-1B Lancer heavy bomber to flying condition and is preparing the jet for a return to full operational service. Given the moniker ...

Widely considered the largest aircraft boneyard in the world is Davis-Monthan United States Air Force Base (AFB), located ...