The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG) is located next to Davis-Monthan AFB. The location was chosen because of Tucson's meager rainfall, low humidity, and alkaline soil. These conditions make it possible to store aircraft indefinitely with a minimum of deterioration and corrosion. In addition, the soil (called caliche) is hard, making it possible to park aircraft in the desert without constructing concrete or steel parking ramps. . The Group provides customer services including aircraft regeneration (restoring aircraft to flying status), programmed depot-level maintenance, and parts reclamation, in addition to its historic storage and disposal functions. More than 4400 aircraft are stored at AMARG, so its a very impressive sight, which is even more impressive from the air. So we went to Double Eagle Aviation and hired a cessna with pilot for one hour and flew over the site to take some nice pictures.
One of the many Ramstein hercs
Norwegian C-130's
recently arrived C-5's
UK harriers
row of fame
Private scrapyard next to AMARG
Just over one year after arrival in AMARG, NASA was still dismanteling this laser 747
NATO TCA
And to finish, some of Pima air and Space museum, which is next to AMARG
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