I have the pleasure of spending a day in Tucson, Arizona once while my wife attended a conference in Phoenix. My main goal was to check out the amazing Pima Air & Space Museum and then see what I could find including checking out “The Boneyard”.
The concept for the Pima Air & Space Museum began in 1966 during the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the creation of the United States Air Force. Earlier the commanders of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC) the forerunner to today’s 309th Aircraft Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG) recognized that the historic World War II and 1950s era aircraft stored on the base was rapidly disappearing into smelters and that the flames were consuming not just metal, but the aviation heritage of the country.
