Airplane boneyard

8 DHL Express Boeing 727s now parked in the desert. This plane was delivered to Trans World Airlines (TWA) on June 20 1974 and flew until it...

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

We're all familiar with the idea of old cars going off to the scrap-yard when they've reached their "use by" date. Whenever we board a plane headed off on a holiday jaunt, how many of us think about what will eventually happen to the plane that we're on when its useful life is over? In...

These are very sad images of, now priceless, warbirds that were left to rot outside to be recycled later. During and after WWII crash landed and

The museum-like quality of the "boneyard" delights enthusiasts, though access is hard to get.

AIRPLANE BONEYARD TUCSON, AZ

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…

"Ghost Rider" and "Wise Guy", the two only two B-52 Stratofortress bombers to be resurrected from the Arizona desert undergoing PDM together.

Airplane cemetary and Aircraft bone yards and cemetaries are awesome places to visit. Forget Disneyland, take the kids on a real adventure.

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.