The 1st pic is a different aircraft from the other pics. Look at the busted windscreen & the colors of the framing. Also, look closely at the markings the warning & rescue arrow.
Thanks BUd for posting these. It would be nice to have one in my yard but, I don’t have the room! Maybe on the roof[:P]
Are you kidding me?[:(!] Its just scrap metal. Now the men who flew it deserves the respect not the machine.
Ed and Desdinova ,
I agree with you guys about their being two aircraft . The markings behind the chain binders are different ,The black “E” with the yellow background is in the first photo only . The chain binder is also up further towards the top of the intake area on the first . There also seems to be Less extra parts under the chain in the cockpit area in the 1st picture .
I was on my way to Cerritos,Ca several months ago.I stopped at a truck stop adjacent to Davis-Monthan.While exiting the parking area,I seen an A-4 (‘M’, maybe) strapped to a flatbed with the entire wing assembly (port and starboard,just like in the model kits) sitting on it’s flaps setting beside the airframe… I wished I had a camera. Yeah, I know it’s ‘just’ friggin’ airplane…but I grew up reading about 'em.Seeing them at airshows.Watching them in movies and documenteries and such,and of course building models of them.Best times my dad and I ever had together was watching airplanes.I never in my wildest dreams EVER thought I would talk about the F-14 and F-15 in the PAST TENSE But that day has arrived.I guess it’s like hearing an old song from the time you were dating the first girl you were really in love with.So I also get kinda sad about seeing something like this.I can’t imagine the emotions a person feels when seeing the final flight of something they have spent 20+ years working on or around.Makes me wish those old airframes could talk.I bet they would have some great stories to share. 
Speaking of aircraft telling stories…imagine what you would hear from this…
…correct me if I’m wrong, but I think there may even be some F-105s in there?
AH AMARK thats down in tuscon iam about 2 hr’s away from there.
I believe that the final stages in an aircraft’s “experience” at AMARC is to be rendered eternally unflyable and its remaining pieces sold for scrap. Its possible that you could get a somewhat intact airframe from one of the scrap dealers nearby. They do appear on e-bay from time to time for around 10 to 15,000 USD. For that price you may get a fuselage on wheel-less landing gear. The cockpit is gutted. The wings are almost always gone. The ejection seat is usually long sold to a collector. You could, I guess, collect enough pieces of an aircraft to put something together that resembles the original, but it won’t ever fly. That stinks; it would be nice, if I had the means, to own an old Phantom, or Tomcat, or Hawkeye, or an early Hornet…
Oooohhh!!!
The ultimate virtual cockpit for the front room / lounge to use on your flight sim. Get me one of them. whens Christmas
shopping spree at AMARK anyone? it’s sad to see any good aircraft go. up here at CFB Trenton we have “ghettoview” where all the old CF birds go.
Unfortunately, except for a few exceptions, most aircraft sold as surplus by the government have to be “demil’d” prior to being removed from the pickup point. With fixed wing aircraft, that means that the main spar must be cut on either side of the fuselage (torch or chainsaw) and the aircraft is inspected prior to removal to ensure that this has been accomplished.
With the price of scrap metals today, the aircraft remains in the pics are most likely on the way to the smelter