Ĭharlotte Aircraft Corporation strips former Northwest Airlines aircraft. Storage, modification and scrapping for retired aircraft. Storage for Kalitta Air and other airlines. Storage and scrapping for retired aircraft such as the MD-88.
Tucson airplane graveyard series#
Storage and scrapping for retired aircraft including the MD-80 series aircraft. Storage and repair for Delta, American and United. Nearly 4,400 aircraft on 2,600-acre, 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group. Ĭotswold Airport (formerly Kemble Airfield), GloucestershireĪir Salvage International, the leading European aircraft decommissioning company. Soviet era aircraft began to appear after 1991. Used primarily for storage of older RCAF Aircraft. Planes stored off service roads north of 09/27. Ĭontains 23 old Fokker F-28 Fellowships of Canadian Regional Airlines and Air Canada Jazz. Notable aircraft boneyards Locationįirst large-scale aircraft boneyard outside the United States. Bringing a narrowbody aircraft back from long term storage takes roughly 40 worker hours while for widebody aircraft the number is roughly 100 worker hours. The longer planes are stored, the more time it takes to get them fully airworthy and ready to fly again. Planes that have been stored for a few months cannot be brought back to service on short notice. As demand recovery behaved differently from expectations, temporary shortages as well as the requirement to prepare planes for long term storage after a few months of short term storage caused issues. Furthermore, many aircraft that had initially been planned for short term storage were ultimately stored long term or even scrapped altogether, requiring maintenance work to prepare the planes for the different plans. ĭue to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on aviation demand for aircraft storage increased dramatically in 2020. In some cases aircraft that were planned to be scrapped or were stored indefinitely without plans of ever returning to service were brought back into service as the aviation market or the demands of military aviation changed or failed to develop as anticipated. The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Tucson, Arizona, the largest facility of its kind, is colloquially known as "The Boneyard". Boneyard facilities are generally located in deserts, such as those in the Southwestern United States, since the dry conditions reduce corrosion and the hard ground does not need to be paved. Most aircraft at boneyards are either kept for storage with some maintenance or have their parts removed for reuse or resale and are then scrapped. Boeing B-52s in storage or awaiting dismantlement at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Arizona, United States.Īn aircraft boneyard or aircraft graveyard is a storage area for aircraft that are retired from service.
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