The Davis Monmouth Air Force Base in Arizona, in the southwest of the United States, has a vast cemetery for out-of-service military aircraft. It has more than 4,400 Air Force, Marine, Coast Guard and NASA spacecraft.
The 11 square kilometer facility was chosen as a dry place in the Thaksin area to provide suitable climatic conditions to prevent the erosion of aircraft structures due to low atmospheric humidity and elevation of 780 meters.
| C-5S military transport giant (US Department of Defense) |
The facility was established immediately after the end of World War II in the mid-1940s, with the primary objective of storing the B29 and C-47 aircraft, to include in the decades to come multiple types of military aircraft, both combat and non-combat, and even civilian aircraft.
| I-1W Cobra Helicopters (US Department of Defense) |
Aircraft that "retire" in that location are either treated by scrap, sold at auction, rehabilitated and maintained in whole or in part (spare parts) for use in the fleet of the air force, coast guard or others.
| Military training aircraft of the T-37 (US Department of Defense) |
A military unit within the Davis Munthan base is the maintenance and rehabilitation of military aircraft, called Group 309 for maintenance and rehabilitation.
| Aerial photograph of military military cemetery erected immediately after World War II (US Department of Defense) |
If the aircraft maintenance and rehabilitation unit decides that the aircraft is worthless, it will be transferred to a Pentagon facility for disposal by government auctions, but after the military equipment is removed and the components removed Harmful to them.
| A military vehicle towing an AWACS Early Warning and Control aircraft from the E3 arrived at its place of storage after it left service (US Department of Defense) |
Each year, the unit receives about 300 aircraft, either for storage or for rehabilitation, to be used again. The number of re-used aircraft varies between 50 and 100 aircraft per year.
| Two employees in the maintenance and rehabilitation unit are engaged in the repair of the F-15C (US Department of Defense) |
In the 1990s, the Maintenance and Rehabilitation Group was assigned the disposal of 365 B-52 bombers, in implementation of the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union.
| Bomber Strategic Bomber B52 H arrived at the maintenance and rehabilitation unit after being referred to retirement (US Department of Defense) |
The facility has about 700 people, and the annual value of spare parts provided by the facility to the US armed forces is estimated at about half a billion dollars.
| A group of US Navy aircraft out of service, a B3C (US Department of Defense) |
A museum called the Bema Museum of the Air and Space of the military establishment has organized public tours inside the facility, and some places have already been used to film many films.