The geology of the desert allows aircraft to be moved around without having to pave the storage areas.īy May of 1946, more than 600 B-29 Superfortresses and 200 C-47 Skytrains had been moved to Davis-Monthan. Contact the public affairs office at (520) 228-5091 for additional information.Stacks of Republic F-84F Thunderstreaks at Davis-Monthan AFB awaiting scrapping in November, 1958 'Tours are limited to Civic Leader Tours and military reunion groups of 20 or more. The wings were more pronounced (not along the back sides like the concord, these stuck out) and I couldn't identify it. I want to say it looked like a cross between a Concord (because of the nose area) and a military plane. On a related note - I saw a large plane flying over campus today that I'm not used to seeing in Tucson. Also, if you're into that you might also like the Titan Missile Museum which is a out-of-commision missile silo SW of Tucson that you can go and take a tour of as well. I've lived here my whole life so I am extremely familiar with the area - View image here: - I'd love to go see the planes at the Pima Air and Space museum again. The other cool thing is you can drive up and down golf links at busy times of day for training and watch A-10's and C-130's fly over you and land if you're lucky.Īnyone planning on making the trip to Tucson, shoot me an e-mail. They have a metric assload of planes just sitting there waiting to be used. It's right through the heart of it but it definately is a site to see otherwise. Unfortunately part of the boneyard (with the B-52's) has a road next to it that dips down and you basically cant see the boneyard around you. Most notably (my favorite) are the 2 or 3 B-52's there and the SR-71 blackbird. The pima air and space museum is pretty much it and they have some very very cool planes. When I was a boy scout we actually got to go into the control tower at Davis-Monthan AFB and tour the boneyard. The boneyard on base is off limits unless you have someone you know in the military who can guide you around it (which isn't a real likely possability). According to their website, they are still doing boneyard (AMARC) tours by bus.Īnyone wants to see the aircraft in the boneyard I can drive you around or tell you where to go at least.

When I was there in (grrrr.can't remember date - think Dec 2001, but could've been August 2001 - trying to remember if the weather was ungodly hot or not.), you could tour the airspace museum self-guided, but the boneyard was done by putting everyone in a bus and not letting anybody off of it. The airplanes at the air/space and boneyard in Tucson are well worth the visit.

Pima Air Museum has some awesome tours though, and if anyone can come close to the boneyards, they are it.Īnyone in Tucson know if you can still tour the boneyard? Many of the planes are actually capable of being flown again within 48-72 hours, if I remember my tours correctly (it was a loooong time ago, when I was a wee tiny bugger). I don't know that you can actually tour the boneyard in Davis-Monthan itself, especially now at heightened security and all. Pima Air is worth the trip if you are anywhere _near_ Tucson and like aircraft at all - I still remember the F4U Corsair inside, B-58, B-47, and F-106 outside, just to name a few. Very close by is Pima Air Museum, which has on display a number of vintage planes restored to functional condition (IIRC, they have one of only 2, perhaps 3? flight-worthy B-29's in existance). From what I understand, the one in Tucson (at Davis-Monthan AFB) is actually 'it'.

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