The Boneyard holds almost 3,200 aircraft, potentially making it the world's fourth-largest air force. The site has around a hundred B-52 Stratofortresses and over 130 A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft stored.

They chose Davis-Monthan Air Force Base here in Tucson. With nearly 2,000 football fields worth of open desert, there was plenty of space. Barnard: We're known worldwide as the boneyard.

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Plane Graveyard Simulator Visit the world's largest airplane graveyard and explore the huge desert filled with wrecks. Hundreds of tons of steel and ...

The Air Force sent at least 39 retired A-10 Thunderbolt IIs to the boneyard in 2024, a significant increase as the service moves toward removing the aircraft from its inventory even as it recently ...

Once the pride of Britain’s RAF and Royal Navy, the now stripped-down Harrier vertical take-off jump jets sit like skeletons in the famous US aircraft ‘Boneyard’ in the Arizona desert. The ...

After the other planes split off, the T-1 continued to its final resting place at “The Boneyard,” an airplane graveyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. “We stand on the shoulders ...

About 10 years ago, Yasushi Takakura, who ran a metal recycling company, watched a TV program that showed decommissioned airplanes lined up on land in a U.S. desert called an “aircraft boneyard.” ...