“Aircraft”, technically speaking. All airplanes are aircraft, but not all aircraft are airplanes. The page this links to correctly refers to the term: List and Map of Active and Post-WWII Aircraft Boneyards and Storage Facilities.
replyIf you’re ever in the Tucson area, highly recommend Pima Air Museum.
replyWould not recommend visiting between May-September as it feels as if you’re walking around in an outdoor blast furnace.
I’ve been there, it’s a great museum. There’s an SR-71 there for one thing.
replyThat's pretty much all of Arizona from late April through October.
replyNot the mountains. They are great in summer.
replyYou may also enjoy Cockpit Casual from Nomadic Aviation Group. Their amazing COVID-era videos often ended at these storage airports.
replyQuestion for the locals: I don’t live in the USA, but I’d love to visit the boneyards someday and get inside some planes to take pictures. Are the boneyards open to the public? Do you need permission?
replyI used to work at an airport listed in this reference actually. Their boneyard was fully behind the fence and no public access would be granted. Even as staff we never went there because you've got massive aging equipment.
replyIt would be an untenable liability to be having around them especially the public. Some of the chassis were there for years.
Depends. Taking pictures in front of or around the planes is no problem, but majority are pretty much sealed off. That said, most of the bigger aerospace museums have several planes and helicopters with cockpit and cabin access.
replyAlso if you’re talking specifically about the planes in the boneyards, would not recommend doing that in the desert. You will find some other “visitors” like rattlesnakes, scorpions etc. that have made the plane their habitat.
replyhttps://www.holloman.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/31...
Yes, I was referring to that :), not the museum ones (I've been to other museums, and I understand the constraints).
replyAccording to the site, many airplane boneyards are limited access sites and do not provide tours. You can always call or email them and ask though.
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