A flight over the "Airplane Graveyard" at Mojave Airport in California 

as a huge aviation and engineering lover this make me sad seeing all these lovely birds on the ground forever especially the L-1011 witch is one of my all time favorites

Wish I could have one of the 747s in my back yard so I could wake up and be like damn I love that aircraft

Imagine this in the future when somebody flies over an airplane graveyard full of scrapped A380s, b787s, b777s, b747-8s and A350 and more...

When the sun goes down. All the planes come alive and tell old war stories to each other.

Omg the Aloha Airlines 737 brought back memories. I miss Aloha.

2:43 well someplane must have told him something funny!

AT 1:42 I SAW MY FAVORITE 2 PLANES , BOEING 707 AND L10 11.......THX 4 POSTING !

I remember watching this video in my childhood, man time *flies*

It breaks my heart to see those 747's out there, dumped and left to rot. (Well not really left to rot, but you see what I mean.)

1:24 I didn’t even realise that there’s an old TWA Convair CV-880 there 😍

It may seem sad to watch these jets just sitting there. However, their useable lifespan is over. We should celebrate the fact that these planes carried millions of passengers safely to their destinations.

It's so strange to see aircraft sitting there, rotting away, waiting to be taken apart and made into soda cans when I see two airplanes that I've flown on before. There is a UAL 747 in the blue/white colors that I flew on in 2001 from LHR (London Heathrow) to IAD (Dulles). I was in business class, and it was such a nice flight and a really nice airplane. And now I see it just sitting there in the hot desert sun. The other airplane I flew on longgggggg ago: It is the Aloha 737-200 in the old colors that I flew on from OGG-HNL to catch my UAL flight home to the mainland. That was in 1985. Thanks for posting this video----so odd to look at these airplanes just sitting there. And to think that there are now 777s and 744s sitting there.....wow! How long until the first A380?

So many classic airliners that I wish were still flying!

Visited this place in the spring of 2002. It was as windswept and dusty as anyplace i've ever been. We were allowed to go in, and I was surprised to be able to identify by livery and tail number a couple of planes I'd flown in. There were a couple of old CO 747's, including one I took from LAX-HNL. Also a bunch of old USAir MetroJets. Amazing place. Dry and windy as hell. There are big commercial wind turbines in the area.

That old Aloha Airlines plane looks great.

Great video. Some interesting airplanes here. A 4 engine jet Convair (880 may be?), the two Sabre jets in NASA colors. One gray DC9 sliced beautifully like it would make a great roach coach; the ATI DC8 fleet looked well preserved and ready to go, even some 707s that look good (on the outside anyway). It also makes me realize my age,...Thanks for posting!

Lockheed Tristar 500. i like this aircraft.

Re-engined Dc-8 super 71s I hope they are just waiting to be leased. I think Delta was the last to fly passengers on them (scheduled service). This Whole video makes me cry!

;( it breaks my heart to see all of these amazing aircrafts abandand...

All these 747's rusting away. Too sad to watch.

Thanks for posting this. When I was in the Air Force & stationed at Edwards AFB in the late 1980's there was a lot of activity here. This facility is not far from Edwards, going out the back gate.

If I were rich enough, I'd restore some of the plane and fly it!

I wish I had a DC-10 in my backyard. My favorite airliner of all time.

I like that Delta L-1011

Hurts to see my 707 & 727 this way :)

Kind of sad really to see these lovely aircraft being abandoned in the middle of the desert like this

I can't wait to travel here and explore the planes when I'm all grown up!

Love it. I flew a Tomahawk into here a few years ago when doing a solo cross country. I never did fly again after finishing the commercial but this was one of my best memories.

So sad to see them dumped and forgotten. These babies were beautiful back in the day :((

Those Southern Air and Atlas Air livery, very beautiful, I just added many of them in my FS2004.

I️ went there in April. I️ saw two KLM jumbos that day. Sad cause I️ went on one from LAX to Amsterdam this March. ;) also I️ feel bad for the Atlas Air

I hate seeing a delta tri star in the grave :(

Can I have a 747-400 cockpit for my simulator? I probably gonna have to kick my wife out of the house to have it in here. Lol

Wow, amazing pictures!

This is George Air Force Base. My dad was stationed there way long ago. Now they just store airliners.

The F-100 super sabre's and the Convair Coronado are museum pieces! And the Tri-Star L-1011 also!

Does anyone remember Braniff? I'm an old guy. My dad was a pilot during WW2. When Europe was defeated, there were too many pilots and C-47/D-C3's, so lots of small airlines started up. He went to work for American when it was American Airways. About 1957, he went to train on the jets. Air travel was really special back then. I think back about walking through airports like I owned them, getting to go up in the cockpit and sit on the jump seat. It was an incredible life for a kid. Back to Braniff,, they were the forerunner to Southwest and they were NICE. They painted their planes all different colors and had the best looking stewardesses of all the airlines. No men and almost all single under 25. We lived in upstate Ny and he was based in NYC, but he would drive to Syracuse and then fly to NYC. If he bid on a flight from say LA to Hawaii, He would leave a day early to get to LA. Pilots always flew standby. So did the families, but it was free. If for some reason, you couldn't get on an AA flight, other airlines extended professional courtesy. That's how I learned about Braniff. Imagine just hitting puberty and being forced to get pampered by hot ladies for a day. It was a tough job but someone had to do it. Haha

R.I.P beautiful birds!! We love you!! Thanks for your work

they shoulda put the gimli glider as a memorial piece or something like that

Amazed the two C-133's, TWA CV880 and APSA CV990 are still there! The twin boom pusher prop is the Northrop Grumman Firebird (probably N241PR).

Seeing those old Cargomasters make me teary-eyed.

Would’ve loved to see a L-1011-600

A wonderful video! Some of the old ladies are still in good colours and could be made restaurants or cafeterias.

Wow, there's even a Convair CV-880 ! And those DC-8 super 71 fitted with newer engines still look ready to go.

If I was rich, I would love to take 1 or 2 of those Delta L1011s

some very beautiful & air worthy there

My wife's father, Mr Edwin Gessele was a 40 year Veteran of the Boeing Company in Flight Test in Seattle ..along with 6 years in WWII in Naval Aviation in the South Pacific... He was also the crew chief on the prototype number 1 747 RA 001 AKA "The City of Everett" and better known as the Queen of the Skies. That airplane is now headquartered at the Boeing Flight Museum in Seattle after under going a remodel/ transformation. Mr Gessele had the distinct honor of being the crew chief on all of the Boeing World Sales demonstration tours with Boeing Airplanes. . I believe I see a Boeing 747 SP identified with "Southern Air" in the bunch of airplanes there. SP stands for "special performance" . I think? He was crew chief on the Boeing SP World sales tour. For some reason the SP never caught on with the airlines and Boeing ended up with only making about 40 of the SPS. The SP was also named the "WORLD TRAVELER" it was a long distance plane and was very fast! Now retired to the desert....How sad...

Really heart touching. ...

victorville (kvcv) has a lot retired airplanes too. amazing vid!!

Mojave is only 57 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif. I wonder if a lot of those planes fell off of the wooden ties holding them up. I live 140 miles from Ridgecrest and felt the earthquakes pretty good, though no damage.

So disapointee for the Gimli glider, really...

THE OLD BEAUTIFUL DC9'S BREAKS MY HEART.

Imagine buying one of these planes(I'd buy that L-1011) and converting it into a house!

Love the whole fleet of DC-8s at 3:19!

2:43 she's trying to smile =)

At 9:49 is a rare Convair 990 "Coronado". Note the large anti-shock body on the upper wings which were designed to increased the critical Mach and reduce transonic drag. I saw one like this that you can walk through on static display at the transportation museum in Lucerne Switzerland, while two are owned by the Mojave Spaceport. Of these, one is on display at the airport's entrance, and the other is used for movie and television filming projects.

near Edwards AFB in California. about a two hour drive from Los Angeles.

All those DC-8s still look flyable, even that TWA Convair 880.

Nice Video

Hi, great video! :) Which company did you charter the Cessna overflight from?

Poor UA 747-400s, they are built in 1997 and scrapped in 2012/13. Quite young

Awesome flying machines they did their job and they did a lot of hard work a man

Wow Aloha airlines neat!!!

Hey guys looked it's my childhood.... Scrapped :(

Great flight over some birds. One L-1011 was super well preserved. I only noticed that one at the end of the vid. Also a couple jets weren't shown, the other Convair 990 and an F-4 next to it.

Looks like my 1/144 airliners collection after I moved them in a Uhaul trailer from NC....except these are in much better shape!

This is weird seeing such iconic jets such as the Boeing 747, 767, Airbus A300, and almost every single McDonnell Douglas jet rusting away here. Also the L-1011 and DC-10 looking forward as they sit next to each other gives me a feeling that they say to each other, *We had a good run, but now it's time. I'm glad we'll go together.*

@ 1:24 Historic is that old TWA Convair CV 880 which was still there at the time this was filmed...

This is really heartbreaking!

this just breaks my heart my favourite the 747 plus many other great planes so sad

Woo... amazing place for Griffin

WOW WHAT A GREAT GRAVE YARD

Buen vídeo!!!

I like your video

muy buena la musica gracias por el video.

...On of the aircraft at the 8:00 minute mark is a Spantax CV-990. Is this still intact?

Kaum zu glauben ! Daumen hoch

I drive past this all the time on the way to Vegas from Paso Robles California

Damn I wish I could have lived to see the early jet age and actually watch these legendary jetliners which shaped the second half of the twentieth century fly

I think it was the early 80's , I would mt out north of LA. cut over at TEHACHAPI pass to Barstow and make my way over to El centro , I always would look forward to that airplane graveyard , it always seemed tranquil . Maybe all the people ,left their good thoughts flying to where ever , and somehow that soon to be scrap metal , has a bit of a soul.

i wish these aircrafts to come back to life

Min 8:10 Convair CV-990 Coronado in Spain is used for Spantax

i can tell the southern air and altas planes look like they will be refurbed , since the paint looks fresh

Awesome, really nice to see, but it is a shame! Liked.

It is all about parts. When I bought my first old car which ran for another 500,000 miles I soon realized that there is a wonderful world of old parts. Some of the electronics on these babies are worth a fortune.

cool to see a convair

Some of the planes in the yard are not retired yet.. they are just kept here. Thats why tour isn't allowed as some are still owned by the companies.

Unknown aircraft with twin boom tail looks like a North American Bronco. They were built in Columbus Ohio, and I remember them very well, flying over when I was a kid, when we lived on Innis rd.

1:26 I see that TWA Convair. Don't try and hide :) Favorite plane with the StarStream TWA

old abandoned buildings and machinery amaze me.

Counted at least 4 Northwest DC9s there...99.99% chance I piloted all of them in my past. Most of those DC9 were parked when the pressure bulkhead AD was due. That AD Hand a price tag of about 1 million $.

😢. Sad to know probably most of the 747-4's I've flown on with United are now decommissioned/out of service. I flew them with the old blue-grey "battleship" livery. Absolutely awesome planes that I'm sad aren't flying with US carriers anymore.

I agree with Pranav Dhakal, if I were rich enough, I would like to get one of the "Southern Air" short bodied fuselage 747's, and customize it for my own living quarters, and have my own pilot/navigator fly to where I would like to go. But I guess that is what dreams are made of (ideas).

Pinal Airpark, near Mirana AZ has many large aircraft waiting to be scrapped. I once saw on there being flattened by a bulldozer!

Nice! Drom what airport and company did you fly?

Wow!

I must love this place, and the boneyard in Tucson, AZ. Do you know if one is able to pilot drones over this particular facility?

I understand that many of these aircraft have a tremendous amount of flight hours on their airframes. We cannot guarantee their structural airworthiness!

At 0:11 off to the left the hanger for the Stratolifter was under construction in 2012.

would love to spend the day there