Aircraft Boneyard Tour and the Pima Air & Space Museum

Picture of the Day for 4/22/2013. I've been wanting to take a bus tour of the aircraft boneyard located on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, AZ for a couple of years now. It's very interesting (and rather haunting) to see acres and acres of decommissioned aircraft. Half of the bonyard is devoted to planes that are in the process of being dismantled and used for parts. The other half is devoted to planes that are still intact and might be called back into active military service.

The boneyard is located next to the Pima Air & Space Museum. I spent most of my time there in the World War ll hangar which houses Bungay Buckaroo- the B-24 bomber which led the entire 8th Air Force on D-Day. 

I also learned a bit of D-Day trivia about how the allied planes were painted with black and white strips on their fuselages and undersides to make them easily identifiable to friendly forces.