Aircraft Boneyard

Oshkosh — As thousands of troops awaited their destiny on a moonless night seven decades ago, one plane taxied to the front of the line, took off in the darkness and turned toward Nazi-occupied France. In the cargo hold nervous paratroopers sat facing The historic plane was found in an aircraft boneyard in Oshkosh. - “That’s All, Brother,” the C-47 that led the D-Day invasion into Normandy, France, during World War II, will be restored to flying condition thanks to a successful fundraising Seven decades later, Staff Sgt. Matt Scales of the Alabama Air National Guard was researching Donalson’s story when he discovered the aircraft—serial number 42-92847—was in a boneyard, slated to be cut up and converted into a modern turboprop. Since 1995, members of the 82nd Aerial Target Squadron at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, have been taking F-4s from the boneyard and converting them into remotely piloted aircraft designated for one purpose: getting blown up. Well, that’s putting it in This is where planes go to die - a 2,600-acre patch of U.S. desert where several generations of military aircraft are stored in what has been dubbed 'The Boneyard'. Now, Microsoft's Bing has created a stunning 'megapixel' view of this eerie sight using It was Scales and fellow Air Force historian Kenneth Tilley who tracked "That's All, Brother" to an aircraft boneyard in Wisconsin in 2014 after seven years of research. The men are both natives of Hartselle, thus deepening the iconic transport plane's .

The 16-year-old Boeing 747-400 was one of three Jumbo Jet’s that were retired by Delta (Airlines) last September to an aircraft ‘boneyard’ in Arizona. The plane was ‘unretired’ and flown from Pinal Airport, Arizona to Minneapolis last week where It is located 130 feet under the Pacific Ocean, in the Kwajalein Atoll, Roi-Namur, near the Marshall Islands. More than 150 U.S. aircraft of the World War II can be found over there, where fierce battle between American and Japanese forces left a trail of A year after taking over maintenance responsibilities for their new C-145A aircraft, Airmen of the 919th Special Operations Maintenance Group now prepare their fleet for the boneyard. Each group of C-145As that takes its final flight from the Duke Field If you find yourself driving down South Kolb Road in the Arizona city of Tucson, you’ll find the houses give way to a much more unusual view; rows of military aircraft, still and silent, spread out under the baking desert sun. On and on, everything from .

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