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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.
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 .
Pinal Airpark's primary function is to serve as a boneyard for civilian commercial aircraft, where the area's dry desert climate mitigates corrosion of the aircraft. It is the largest commercial aircraft storage and heavy maintenance facility in the world. [4] Even so, many aircraft which are brought here wind up being scrapped.
Most countries fly planes until they are no longer useful, but America retires planes that are still useful all the time. This is where they go to rest.
In response to the sharp drop in air travel during the COVID-19 pandemic, several airlines contracted with aircraft boneyard operator ComAv to store aircraft and to keep them clean and in working order while they are in storage. [11] By late March 2020, about 275 airliners were in storage at SCLA. [12]
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