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These Sikorsky built MH-60S Seahawks, Bunos 165770 and 165752 arrived for storage from HSC-28 (Dragon Whales) Naval Station, Norfolk on July 28, 2014. The platform's Naval missions were anti-surface warfare, combat support, humanitarian disaster relief, combat search and rescue, aero medical...
F-16C, Serial No. 85-1562, the sixth delivery in support of ACC's Full-Scale Aerial Target Program this year is directed out of AMARG and heads for Tyndall AFB, Fla. today- Aug 14, 2014
The first C-23B+ Sherpa arrived for storage on July 30. Though still bearing U.S. Army markings, the aircraft was transferred to the United States Forest Service prior to its arrival.
VF-114’s F-4S (F-4J at the time of the conflict), Bureau No. 157245, credited with downing a MiG-21 on 6 May 1972. The aircraft was crewed by Lt Cdr Pete “Viper” Pettigrew and RIO Lt Michael McCabe.
F-4S, Bureau No. 157249, call sign “Linfield 206,” also credited with a MiG-21 kill on May 6...
The May 2014 Aircraft Inventory is available; if interested in obtaining a list of the 3,807 aircraft currently in storage, send a request to 309.AMARG.Business.Affairs.Liaison@us.af.mil to get a copy
Twenty-six Army Kiowas have arrived for storage at AMARG. Air Force C-17s offloaded the first shipment of OH-58Ds at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in mid-May.
The first shipment of U.S. Army OH-58Ds arrive at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. on board an Air Force C-17 - Photo courtesy 355th Fighter Wing...
F-4C, Serial No. 64-0699, credited with downing a MiG-17 on April 23, 1966, has returned to AMARG from Davis-Monthan and is now viewable on display row. Assigned to the 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 8th Tactical Fighter Wing at Udorn Royal Thai Air Base, “Mink 04” was flown by Capt R. E...
The Contingency Aeromedial Staging Facility or CASF Walls from Balad, Iraq will be brought back for an encore presentation at this year's "Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona" open house at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, April 12 & 13, 2014. Thousands of notes, evocative of sacrifice, from ranking...
First production F-16, Serial Number 85-1455, regenerated for flight in support of the QF-16 Full-Scale Aerial Target program passes its FCF on Thursday, January 16, 2014
AMARG crew chief greets Lt Col Meyer, 370 FLTS, Edwards AFB, FCF pilot for the initial launch of F-16, 85-1455 - Jan. 16...
Visitors to AMARG will get a closer look at a C-5 Galaxy thanks to the 578th Storage and Disposal Squadron's efforts to move Serial No. 68-0220 to display row today.
Last B-52G Falls to New START
The last B-52G marked for destruction under New START is slated for execution today at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. While the Air Force currently operates the B-52H, retired B-52Gs stored at the boneyard still counted against the deployed nuclear delivery platforms...
Three C-20Cs, modified versions of the Gulfstream III or C-20Bs, and often utilized to accompany Air Force One (VC-25A), arrive for storage on Dec 2, 2013.
This hauntingly appropriate USMC KC-130F is one of many remaining spirits stored at the Boneyard.
The last A-10, 80-0273, to undergo the SLEP or service-life extension program at 309 AMARG departed today. Pilot, Maj "R2" Richardson, delivered the jet to Hill AFB in Utah where it will receive...
The F-16 Unmanned Fighter Jet
The F-16 Unmanned Fighter Jet
The flight represented the first unmanned QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target flight
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/f16fighter1
F-16C, Serial No. 84-1254, retired in April 2008, nearly three years after becoming the first F-16C model to reach 6,000 flying hours. The aircraft’s milestone was achieved while flying a combat mission during Operation Iraqi Freedom on Sept. 4, 2005. Info courtesy Maj Youens.
NASA’s new WB-57F, N927NA, flies for the first time in 41 years
NASA currently operates a pair of WB-57F high-altitude research aircraft based out of Ellington Field in Texas, but very soon a third airframe will join the fleet. Paul Filmer reports on NASA 927′s first flight...
F-16s being regenerated into drones
7/11/2013 - DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz., -- Less than three months after the last F-4 phantom II departed from the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group for drone conversion, maintainers here are already turning the wrenches on Air...