View Full Version : The biggest junk yard in hte US!
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
01-03-2010, 08:21 PM
I didn't bother to look, but is it Davis Monthan Air Force Base?
It's huge and you can drive around it.
Great place to be in the scrap business!
Ed Donnelly
01-03-2010, 08:40 PM
Phil; Thats just down the road from Sanford and Sons scrap yard:shades: ...Ed
piper_chuck
01-04-2010, 06:07 AM
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
01-04-2010, 06:56 AM
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.
God forbid the public should have its own Air Force!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
silverghost
01-04-2010, 11:01 AM
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
01-04-2010, 11:36 AM
here is a link to view the aircraft scrapped and stored at the "Junk Yard"
http://www.stockwellphotos.com/catalog_amarc.htm
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