The biggest junk yard in hte US!

[MOP]

Those of you with Google Earth check out the big Junk yard outside Tucson, Lat Lon below.

32 degrees10'04.37N by 110degrees51'46.66W the biggest junk yard in the US!

[gcarter]

I didn't bother to look, but is it Davis Monthan Air Force Base?
It's huge and you can drive around it.

[MOP]

Great place to be in the scrap business!

[Ed Donnelly]

Phil; Thats just down the road from Sanford and Sons scrap yard:shades: ...Ed

[piper_chuck]

Any F-4 Phantoms sitting out there in that bone-yard ?
Used to fly one in the 70s
But that was half a lifetime ago~
And a story for another day !

I had heard that all the existing boneyard F-4 Phantoms are slowly being converted to radio controlled target drones !
Sad fate for a world-class fiighter that owned the fastest climb rate for decades !
Yup, that's exactly what they're doing with them. The number is steadily going down. Until a couple years ago my parents were living in Tucson and I visited this place, along with the Pima museum, several times.

[gcarter]

Some years back, the Air Force put a stop to selling parts to the public because they weren'r "certified". I understand the concern, but there're some otherwise unobtainalble aircraft and parts.
I supppose any use at all is better than no use.
At the end of WW-II the entire fleets of several families of aircraft were incenerated rather than surplusing them to the public.
The A-26 bomber comes to mind, I know there were some fighters too.

[MOP]

God forbid the public should have its own Air Force!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[silverghost]

Old Fighter Planes~
Most prop driven fighter planes were scrapped as you have stated.
This is why P-51 Mustangs are selling for $1 1/2- 2 Million $ today.
Each year one or two old WW II fighters are lost to accidents.
I hear there are only 12 airworthy flying F-4U Corsairs today.
This famous fighter was one of few prop planes that contiued to be used into the new jet era after WW II .
Also I had heard that the F-14 fighter pilots were ordered to fly their planes to the scrapyard where they were immediately pulled-apart in front of their eyes.
There are now very few F-14 s surviving !
There are several guys that I know of who are going to Russia and other old Soviet Satelite countrys and buying-up all the old USSR-built fighters & trainers.
Unlike the USA it would seem that the Soviet Union kept almost all of their old warplanes in storage.
This guy has shipped-back dozens of old aircraft and container-loads of spares.

[Barry Eller]

here is a link to view the aircraft scrapped and stored at the "Junk Yard"

http://www.stockwellphotos.com/catalog_amarc.htm