309th AMARG Bus Tour - The Military Aircraft Boneyard in Tucson, AZ 

Thank You for this video.... I am an 80 year old Air Force Vet. Lots of memories here, some good and some bad. Kinda like going through a cemetery with all graves being relatives....!

I grew up around the boneyard in Tucson, Arizona and to watch this brings back a lot of memories and I miss home dearly. As I wipe a tear from my eye and just smile and remember what it was like. Take the tour, ( I highly recommend it) see my beloved Tucson, and you will always remember it forever. Haven't been home since 89. Tucson lives in my heart and will ALWAYS be a special place to me!!! I miss home........

Awesome video and really cool to see all of the planes!!! have a good one!! 😃😎

Excellent video, always wanted to visit the boneyard, this is the next best thing. Thanks so much for sharing!!

This tour is incredible! I need to go on it someday. I loved seeing the YAL-1 and the KC-135s.

Great vid thank you for taking me along, sad to see the souls of planes not flying.

The bus tours are over. Sad that we'll never see this again.

So glad to see one of my Tomcats from my old squadron VF-154 The Black Knights still survives 15:31. Was surprised to see they still have O-2’s there 35:22. Would like to get my hands on some of those parts to finish putting mine back together.

The video was interesting, thanks for sharing. An updated tour would be nice, though.

You kept pace with the tour guide very well....he was quick!

I grew up in Tucson. Dad was stationed at DM and after he retired, we lived virtually across the street, across Golf Links near Wilmot. When we lived on the base and across the street in the 1960s, there were WWII aircraft there, early large cargo planes like the C-124 which sat near the corner of Golf Links & Wilmot behind a simple, mostly broken down crappy barbed wire fence and the APs drive around the perimeter all day and all night. Everything south and east of GL & Wilmot was open desert. I hear they have run craycroft and wilmot tgrough the base now. I looked on a map today and see that the housing area we lived in back then has been plowed under and no longer exists and the elementary school is also gone. Bummer. I attended that school, Lowell Smith, for my first 2 years. Just memories now. I won't relaye the sad story about the house. Perhaps the memory is best gone with the house. Great video! I enjoyed calling out the aircraft models before you did! I'm an aviation nut! Got it from living on the base and attending every air show from 1960 to about 1970. Love them air planes!

Tour guide for this program was great. I am sure they all are! Well done.

..."Would you believe".....actually a very good guide/narrator, I would love to take this tour... :)

Thanks for the video. I am not able to go myself so this will have to do.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

Great video! I'd love to go tour one of these some day! The F117 was my favorite lol

Great video

Thanks for sharing!!

Great VIDEO.

I live a couple miles east of DM, never made the trip to see the boneyard but been there for air shows and other things! SEMPER FI!

I flew on one of the C27s in Panama. It came in landed and took off from the little LZ on the Main post of Ft Sherman. We were told we would be flying to Howard/Ft. Kobbe, we expecting Hueys or Chinooks, which we flew on regularly, instead in flew the c27. Was pretty cool, had never even seen a c27 before.

Its amazing to see that many planes just sitting in a field

I'd buy that for a dollar! :) Great video, this must be an amazing tour.

Wow brings back memories.

I'm gonna take this tour soon!

That ....was....awesome!!! All of those f-4's and A-4's still out there? Wow. Prior to this boneyard was Kingman, Arizona. The big WW2 graveyard.

Damn I would like to visit this place!

I was part of the initial QF-102 target drone program that flew out of Tyndall AFB in NW Florida. It was strange to see the videos of some of those planes as they blew apart after being hit. Once hit and deemed too unsafe to bring back to land there is a safety charge inside the plane and it rips the plane apart in the middle. The F-102 and the F-106 looked very much alike and the easiest way to tell them apart was to look and see if the top of the vertical stabilizer had a point to it or not. The F-102 had that point but the F-106 was flat.

very very good video

27:15 that Boeing 737 fleet with red stripes on are called "Janet Airlines" "Just Another Non-Existent Terminal" used for taxi to the Military bases on Groom Lake.

For those viewing this in 2023 - the AMARG no longer offers tours via the Pima Air & Space Museum.

The KC135s are still flown by the Air National Guard at Phoenix, Skyharbor, though they are supposed to be "officially" decommissioned.

The KC-135R where probably there for re-engines.

do u know where I can get avionics on a 747-400 to build a simulator

I know most of these aircraft are just to supply parts for aircraft still in service but those three or four rows of C-12s (King Air 200) should be made available to the civilian market, or at least to support the civilian parts market for this great airplane. So much hardware now called obsolescence. They all had their day of glory..

Just wish the company made a professional quality video of the tour so that all could enjoy the super aircraft that resides at this location.

Love the F-100, hope to take a ride in one some day :)

I live here in tucson I see this all the time not much changes here they just sit and sit

That's a protective coating against the Arizona Desert sun.

Did the commentary just say that Japan sent their pilots to Tucson to fly the F-16? I am assuming that they were getting a heads up for their F-2.

27:15 - 737-200 JANET aircraft

If you love airplanes this will make you cry

...Wow!...something still there with radial engines! (Tracker/Trader?)...who would have thought :)

AMAZING VIDEO, what did you shoot this with

It would be interesting as if our Mac is saying they could bring anything back in the service I would challenge him to pick the oldest F4 phantom and put it back in the service. Just to see if they could?

All those C9s from the VR squadrons. 048 was from VR58 back in the day.

Can these aircrafts be purchased?

All the remaining B-2s (20 of 21 built, one crashed on takeoff at Guam) are still in service and will be for quite a while. The F-117s are mothballed at a separate location. Thus no stealth bombers.

Can I buy an F for for scrap metal price would love to fly one

Is their C-119's in the boneyard?

Can I buy one of those Air Force for scrap metal price would love to fly one

Done this tour a couple of times ,sad to see B1s in there ,surely one of the most handsome aircraft ever flown

I remember ordering parts from AMARC a few times...we got the only pitot tube left in the Airforce for one of our C130s..I drive on Davis every so often. Pretty boring base, hurlburt was always nice and quiet.

at 2:26 why does that plane have a Houston Texans logo?

Wanna go there one day

PLease get the camera pointed at the right airplane more of the time.

Tks, saved me from going there! Great vid!

Do i need infrared gogles to see the f117 couse i couldnt see it?

were is this?

What material do they use to cover glass surfaces and to seal up the planes to keep outside dirt and other stuff from getting inside? // One question: does the extreme heat of the Arizona climate take a big toll on these planes? Those interiors, being sealed up, must get incredibly hot.

can civilians purchase the junk? i want to turn it into a hotel in my country

Fun fact: the super Sabre on the thumbnail of the video says ‘420’ on the nose

Why are the most planes white-wrapped?

35:39 "Janet Airline" aka AREA51 Transport for employees....wonder what they are doing with them.

...and an F-100!...wouldn't have thought..."Hey, I think I've still got a couple B-17's and B-24's over in the east 40 the smelters forgot about....come to think of it, there may be a B-32 over in the weeds there, too..darn, been a few years since I've been there...almost forgot about that one".... :)

Que funcion cumplen tantos aviones avandonados

Pienso que todo este material metálico, debiera pasar a reciclaje, en vez de mantenerlo almacenado. En todos los paises hay de una u otra manera, cementerios de naves aereas que debieran pasar a reciclaje.

3 days to get a lot of those F-16 10 F-15 than a TENS all the ones that are newer model airplanes only 3 days to get them back in Action that's pretty good

Bucket List....

Soooo. when the tour guide says "look to the right", why does the camera look to the left?

This is pretty good for a camcorder on a tour and makes it so I don't have to go to see the tour :)

Thank you, Ted. I also have plenty of pictures on Flickr at flickr dot com/clemensv If you have anything particular in mind feel free to send me a message.

Cool

27:75 He for got to talk about the Area51 Janet planes!

I have nothing against the military.One reason I was in the military for a number of years.But I look at this and all of the planes and the most important thing the billions of dollars that is just sitting there.Also there is a bone yard for tanks,jeeps and all kinds of stuff that goes back to WWI.My brother drove a 18 wheeler years ago and he made a delivery to it.No bull,when I got out of the truck I looked and we were inline with Willy's Jeep as far as I could see.One spot had tarps and a shed over it and the guy said go ahead take a look.Under one of the tarps was a brand new Willy's Jeep engine and transmission.BRAND NEW still in a crate with the top off,transmission's beside them.To take a guess I would say they were more than 400 tarped new engines and transmissions just sitting there.Thats something I always wanted a "Wille" jeep and they wouldn't miss one.lol!

All those amazing planes that have fought hard for their country and it’s people, just sitting there rotting. Guess it’s gotta happen, but it’s still a sad sight.

Very good tour of the airfield but the audio quality on this tour is absolute crap.

Fighter planes have a come a long way from crop dusters with a machine gun mounted on it.

Why do they store these aircraft for so long? Why do they store them at all? Is there some thought they might be reactivated under any circumstances?

I notice he didnt say anything about the Jamet Airlines 737's sitting there. LOL

that place has every thing u need as well cant belive they just leave them there to roit away i would be just like a big kid if i was alord to do as i please i n there so them how to make the best plance that would be to fast and to stealth to even no that its pass any were wish i was lucky

Thats a hell of alotta F-16's, give me one you wont miss it cmonnn

Can someone tell me what AMARG means please ?

Bruce Dickinson and Tom Clancy each have a tank. I wonder if any famous people not named Paul Allen have their own fighter jet. Dude has a MIG-29.

Forgot to mention F-106 holds the fastest single-engine jet engine aircraft to date.

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In this video, we can observe how America is so wealthy that those F16 are waiting for disposal. Other countries are trying to get or buy some of those but America is hesitant because those are already used.

why were they painted white?

Desert Gold...

That wasn't a T-37

It was a great tour awesome airplanes. Some idiot kids put a thumbtack in my seat 💺 with the point sticking up and it freakin hurts

On the B2 I would say there’s only 19 left because the one I seen was in very bad shape lol

Im on my way to the bone yard. With my camera

Panasonic X-900M

that bone yard of 70, F-16's costs tax payers $1.02200 billion dollars new ( in 1974) , + training plus, maintenance, + fuel, + re-equip's, plus updates, plus safety checks. Aircraft time in service....these are retired in a bone yard. per aircraft, and were still being built 2017.

considering the deficit spending by our government, most of those aircraft aren't even paid for... Its kinda like taking a 84 month loan on a new car, then sending it to the junkyard after 24 months... and you continue to make payments on it

Are any of these aircraft for sale? It seems like such a waste if not...

os americanos estao endividados,,este filme mostra a razao

hot dog! them there some fine flying killing machines!

I bet no one saw the area 51 737 near the end of the tour.