More than 4,000 Aircraft over 10 Km2 of Desert: Arizona's Military Car Park Lines Almost as Many Aircraft as the US Air Force in Service

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In Arizona there are thousands of decommissioned military aircraft. The U.S. Air Force maintains many of them – and uses parts for active machines.

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More than 4,000 military aircraft, some worth tens of millions of dollars, sleep in open air in the Arizona desert. Not destroyed, not forgotten: simply put in sleep, preserved with meticulous care in case history still needs them. To remember The Davis-Monthan base, managed by the AMARG unit, preserves [...]