The video explores the massive aircraft boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, where more than 3,000 retired military aircraft sit across 2,600 acres of Arizona desert. Some are stripped for parts, ...

Spanning more than 2,600 acres (1,050 hectares) in the Arizona Desert, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group ...

Aircraft storage at Davis-Monthan began in 1945, when the 4105th Army Air Forces Base Unit was organised to house Boeing B-29 Superfortresses and Douglas C-47 Skytrains left over after the war. The ...

The process of retiring aircraft, including the F-16s, is formalized through the USAF’s annual budget proposals submitted to Congress as part of the Department of Defense’s fiscal year (FY) requests.