airplane graveyard

Post war airplane graveyard in the Pacific

Of 79th AEW&CS with 55-0139 EC-121D 79th, 53-0537 EC-121H 552nd, 52-3411 EC-121T 552nd, 53-0556 EC-121Q 552nd, 53-0541 EC-121Q 552nd - Photo taken at Tucson - Davis-Monthan AFB (Municipal) (DMA / KDMA) in Arizona, USA on October 7, 1976.

The evolution of travel has truly reached a different height, both literally and figuratively, with the discovery and success of the airplane.

© Yann arthus Bertrand Before they are put to rest, airplanes undergo funeral-esque rituals known as 'pickling'. Their engines are removed, the windows covered and the fluids drained. But of course these giants are too big to bury. In the parched deserts, where a dry climate is an old machine's b

Graveyard B-747

Take a look at airplane boneyards in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Florida that store retired aircraft.

America's Boneyards: Where Airplanes go to Die - Nostalgia - Messy Nessy Chic

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The Air Transport Senior Staff Services Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN) on Friday called for the removal of abandoned aircraft parked at aprons across the country's airports.ATSSSAN's President, Mr Benjamin Okewu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the call was necessitated by 2 recent ground collision incidents by aircrafts at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. NAN reports that a Boeing 777-200LR belonging to Emirates Airline and a B737-400 owned by HAK Air collided on…

Urban exploration and abandoned aircraft at Bangkok’s airplane graveyard. How to get there, what to expect and do you have to pay to get in?

The Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, California, USA contains an aircraft boneyard with more than 150 retired planes. Because the demand for jumbo jets has dropped significantly in the last two decades in favor of smaller, more affordable twin-engine planes, many large aircrafts such as Boeing 747s have been retired. The dry conditions in Victorville – located on the edge of the Mojave Desert – limits the corrosion of metal, meaning planes can be stored here for years…

Amazing collection of photos showing more than 150 lost World War Two aircraft 130-feet under the Pacific Ocean has been recently released. A 31-year-old,

Twenty-five years before the Malaysia Airlines mystery, one of the most dramatic events in aviation unfolded in the skies over Iowa as heroic pilots battled to land a crippled DC-10.