{"id":370796,"date":"2010-02-27T14:34:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"1873 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-27T14:34:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T19:34:17","slug":"309th-aerospace-maintenance-and-regeneration-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/370796","title":{"rendered":"309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/arizona\/pima-county\/tucson\">Tucson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/arizona\">Arizona<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/incredible-ruins\">Incredible Ruins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Airplane aficionados rejoice! Heaven has been found and it&#8217;s on the grounds of the Davis-Montham Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. <\/p>\n<p>The 2,600-acre area, officially called the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) though popularly known as &#8220;the Boneyard,&#8221; is filled with retired aircraft, including almost every type of plane flown by the United States Armed Forces since World War II. <\/p>\n<p>Immediately after World War II, B-29 and C-74 airplanes were parked here in order to salvage parts. The aerospace junkyard has been growing ever since: B-52 bombers from the Cold War are parked next to F-4 fighter\/bombers used during the Vietnam War, while civilian planes like 707s bring some diversity to the neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>The parts gleaned from the decommissioned planes are used in maintaining and repairing current Joint and Allied\/Coalition warfighters. Official figures from the Defense Department estimate that by using replacement parts culled from the Boneyard, every one dollar spent generates eleven dollars in savings through reuse. <\/p>\n<p>Tuscon&#8217;s arid, high-altitude make it an ideal storage place; rust and other deterioration occurs here at a much slower rate. Due to its unique landscape, the Boneyard is regularly used by Hollywood to stage post-apocalyptic and action movies.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/200217863_75d9898486.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucson, Arizona | Incredible Ruins Airplane aficionados rejoice! Heaven has been found and it&#8217;s on the grounds of the Davis-Montham Air Force Base in Tuscon, Arizona. The 2,600-acre area, officially called the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) though popularly known as &#8220;the Boneyard,&#8221; is filled with retired aircraft, including almost every type of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}