Does somebody have pic’s of any aviation graveyards that they can post, or know of any websites?
I’d imagine one could see some interesting aircraft and possible diorama subjects?
THONK [:)]
Here’s some links to start you off:
The AMARC Experience - One of the nicest AMARC sites.
AMARC - The official AMARC site
AMARC F-111’s - The photos are kinda small but a good bit of info on Pigs at AMARC.
The Boneyard - Several shots of AMARC birds here.
PhanCon AMARC 2000 photos - Some cool stuff from the F-4 Phantom II Society site.
Davis-Monthan AFB & AMARC - The DM/AMARC pages on the Airshow Action site.
AMARC - Skywarriors Final Rest - Some Whales at AMARC.
Mike’s Skyhawk Pages - Has a few MASDC & AMARC galleries
Davis Monthan Air Force Base AMARC - Only a few shots here.
F-4 AMARC Before Paint - The majority of these shots show a Texas ANG Rhino before the application of spraylat.
MASDC II AMARC - An online companion to the book…
AMARC Phantom II - LOTSA Rhinos at AMARC
A Photographic History of NAF & VX-5 at NOTS China Lake - Look for the AMARC link (right side, under Facilities Photos). Smallish images, but quite interesting stuff, especially the wrecks at China Lake.
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Here’s some WWIII links:
http://www.oldcmp.net/amlacgy.html
http://www.kensmen.com/64b2.html
www.b24bestweb.com - search for “graveyard”
Hope this helps.
Hey Wolf,
Thank you for all those great links!! Just spent the better part of 2 hours browsing through them all, THANKS again! [:)]
Take care,
Frank
I’ll have to make sure I check all of those out. There’s no way to get in to any of those graveyards is there? I mean not legally right? A tour would be really cool.
There have been tours in the past but I dunno what the word is today; there’s a notice on the official AMARC site (very bottom of home page) alluding to it having been “sanitized” for military info. But I believe one of the tours at the NATS this year is for DM/AMARC.
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I took the AMARC tour back in 1999. If everything is still the same, the tours have been contracted out to the Pima air & Space Museum, right across the highway from D/M AFB. You get on a bus at the main entrance of the museum, & it drives you into the boneyard. You can’t get off the bus, though. The windows are slightly tinted, & the pics I took through them had a blueish hue to them. More info can be found at www.pimaair.org/amarc.htm.
Chris ish
SO sad to see soo many great planes cannibalized as such. C’est la vie for the airplane. Actually, makes me want to scale up a bit from 1/48 scale to 1/1 scale.
“Honey! Pack the power tools we’re moving to the desert!”
I’d like to see that on Discovery Wings. See someone rebuild a Liberator or a Helldiver or a Marauder or a Hellcat or a… It wouldn’t have to fly. Just the fuselage, wings, gear and mock engines would be cool. Could probably sell it to a museum to cut the losses of fixing it up. “The Re-Birth of a Plane”.
Quagmyre, I have to agree with you!
THONK [8D]
Its amazing to me that nowadays when some one mentions aircraft graveyards everyone thinks of Davis-Monthan. Nobody seems to realize how many aircraft graveyards were scattered across this country and around the world from 1945 to 1950.
I’ve seen pictures of Kingman AZ (Air Force, B17s, B-24s, B-25’s, A-20s, P-51s etc), Stuttgart AR (Air Force, hundreds of P-40s and P-47s, all with engines removed, standing on their noses), Chino Ca (Air Force, A-36s, P-40s, P-47s, O-47s, all kinds of trainers etc) and Litchfield AZ (Navy, PBYs, PV-1s and 2s, PB4Y-1s and 2s, F4Fs, F6Fs, F4Us, TBMs etc). In one of the 1951 issues of National Geographic, there was a photo of an island somewhere in Indonesia that was covered from one end to the other (except for the landing strip) with B-24s and the jungle was growing back over them. There were a couple of hundred a/c and it had been determined that it would be cheaper to fly them there, remove their weapons and break their backs with bulldozers, than fly them back to the States.
A couple of years before he died my dad (a former B-24 Bombadier) visited me at the museum where I worked and I happened to be working on the only flyable B-24 in the world (at that time). I made the comment that it was too bad that there weren’t more of them left. His comment was that it was a shame but I had to remember that most of the people who had taken them into combat didn’t care what happened to the aircraft at the end of the war. They were sick and tired of them and felt that there were more important things to be done. I’ve finally come to understand what he meant.
Anybody who visited CFB Edmonton while it was still an airbase in the Canadian Armed Forces’ post CF-101 Voodoo days is familiar with this denizen that haunted the South part of the base:
She was a sorry sight in 1990 like this, all stripped down, no engines, no seats, nothing. They were, for several years planning to put her out on an air weapons range for air to surface attack training[:(]
As the photo below, taken just a scant nine years later shows, THANK GOD THEY DIDN’T. Or at least thank the good folks at the Alberta Avation Museum at the Edmonton Municipal Airport for taking her in and making her their gate guardian.[8)]
