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The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309th AMARG), [3] often called The Boneyard, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis–Monthan Air Force Base.
The base was named in honor of World War I pilots Lieutenants Samuel H. Davis (1896–1921) and Chief Engineer Oscar Monthan (1885–1924), both Tucson natives. [3] Monthan enlisted in the Army as a private in 1917, was commissioned as a ground officer in 1918, and later became a pilot; he was killed in the crash of a Martin B2 bomber in Hawaii on March 27, 1924.
An aircraft boneyard or aircraft graveyard is a storage area for aircraft which are retired from service. Most aircraft at boneyards are either kept for storage continuing to receive some maintenance or parts of the aircraft are removed for reuse or resale and the aircraft are scrapped .
The museum is adjacent to Pima Air & Space Museum and Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), affiliated with the base, also known as the "Graveyard of Planes" or "The Boneyard", is the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world. [2]
44-13571 No unique name; painted as post-WW II Eglin Field armament evaluation aircraft- Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB, Florida. [250] 44-63272 Bad Angel – Pima Air & Space Museum, adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona. [251] 44-63615 Bunnie – Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. [252]
To Bolling Field in 1954, then into storage at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1956. Private ownership 1959 to 1990; in storage 1984 to 1990. Restored 1991 and flown as "Miss Museum Of Flying". [107] To Palm Springs Air Museum in 1993, named "Miss Angela." [108] [109] Potentially airworthy but not known to have flown since 2004. 44-85784
Four of 18 B-52Hs from Barksdale Air Force Base were retired and were in the "boneyard" of 309th AMARG at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base as of 8 September 2008. [222] B-52H "Ghost Rider" leaving the "bone yard".
The aircraft was being flown to retirement at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, the US military aircraft storage facility at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. [1] The aircraft was in its initial climb out of Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, when it went into a left bank before losing altitude and crashing.