It is located at the Mojave Air & Space Port, which is "home to more than 70 companies engaged in flight development to light industrial to highly advanced aerospace design, flight test and research and even heavy rail industrial manufacturing." It has a dry, clear and virtually smog-free climate that helps minimize corrosion. A 1969 DC-9-30, now rendered see-through…Another plane sunk into the sand, which began to remind me of a predator stalking its prey:Despite an infinite number of differences in size, shape, purpose, flight history, clientelle, and so on, all of the planes at Mojave nevertheless share one thing in common: their final destination.PS – The Mojave Boneyard is available for film shoots – Nick, more trivia….

For AMARG bus tour departure times, ticket prices, policies, reservations, security details, and seasonal schedules, visit the It is the only boneyard open to the public, but under strict access rules.AMARG is a controlled-access facility and thus off-limits to personnel without the proper clearance.The guided bus tours of AMARG are available Monday thru Friday, excluding Federal holidays.

You can stumble upon planes from pretty much any era – below, a pair of Douglas C-133 Cargomasters……a cargo plane built circa the late 1950s (and desperately in need of a Pixar-illustrated smiley face to go along with that nosecone):Though both planes have been out of commission for decades…Walking just a few rows over becomes an abrupt time warp to the 1980s with this line of Gulfstreams…Below, a Gulfstream III, one of 202 built from ’79-’86…And just short distance away, the hulking mass of a DC-10……to Hawaii-bound 737s, none will ever take to the skies again.There’s something unexpectedly eerie about being surrounded by so many dead, empty aircraft…I headed up through the access hatch of a towering 747…Past the various electronics I imagine I’d have to remove as a pilot were the computer mainframe ever to turn on me (“What are you doing, Dave?”)…Empty leather seats, video screens dark (yes, if one of these were to have suddenly turned on, I would have died instantly of a heart attack):Tray tables all in their upright and locked positions:…and into the luxuriously large First Class section (which actually feels extremely claustrophobic when you know you’re not going anywhere):Back outside, I kept staring at the plane bodies sliced ever-so-neatly in half, and found myself picturing an enormous bagel cutter-like device:In particular, I loved finding planes that had been cross-sectioned, inadvertently providing a helpful anatomy lesson:In fact, it was almost like a primer on how to build a plane.

There are even more planes stored in Victorville than Mojave. Lines and lines of FedEx DC-10s and many B747s.There are some new airplanes parked here, including a Boeing 747-8i that Lufthansa never took delivery, several Boeing 737 MAX 8s and a Mexican Government B787 VIP up for sale.We went inside an ex United B747-400 N181UA. His fascination with airplanes stemmed from visiting Kai Tak airport as a teenager. The largest boneyard in the world, at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, does allow tours of its Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) facility.. the gate area is about 3 miles west of Interstate 10. While individuals are allowed to take photos or video for private use, they are not allowed off the tour bus while on AMARC property. I visited Mojave, Ca, which is a famous airplane graveyard in the Californian desert. !OH,, I was a flight attendant and Purser then In Flight Trainer.Midfield Aviation based at Apple Valley airfield offer air tours for overflying Victorville and Mojave boneyards.

The boneyard itself boasts approximately 4,400 aircraft from various branches of the military. You know, the standard stuff. Just thinking about all the time, effort and money that went into building those…..En ese cementerio… NUNCA JAMAS, NUNCA estará un DC-3Seen the outside when I drove past years ago BUT where do the old pilots go when put out to pasture?I flew for American Airlines from 1974 to 2011 and worked on a 707, 727 100/200, DC 10, MD 80, and in my retirement, 777, 757 and 767. These are the decaying remains of a scale model of the Exxon Valdez from the movie A few more pictures. They don’t typically welcome visitors.To bad some of these airplanes could not be converted and/or transported to the homeless, used as greenhouses, etc. The blade “goes through this airplane like butter,” observes Joe McKinney, AMARC’s chief of treaty compliance. It is located just north of Air Base Road (Air Expressway).