AMARG: America's Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve
AMARG: America's Strategic Military Aircraft Reserve
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1913870618 | 249 Pages | EPUB | 6 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1913870618 | 249 Pages | EPUB | 6 MB
The United States military stores more than 4,000 aircraft in the Arizona desert at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Known as the “Boneyard,” this facility is much more than a place where aerospace vehicles come to die. Here some aircraft are maintained in both short- and long-term storage, while others serve as a “parts inventory on the wing” holding valuable spare parts in known locations ready to be harvested, overhauled, and returned to the fleet when needed. When an aircraft has yielded all the parts necessary to keep its brethren in the air, its carcass eventually meets the scrapper’s torch.