AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG) is located next to Davis-Monthan AFB. The location was chosen because of Tucson's meager rainfall, low humidity, and alkaline soil. These conditions make it possible to store aircraft indefinitely with a minimum of deterioration and corrosion. In addition, the soil (called caliche) is hard, making it possible to park aircraft in the desert without constructing concrete or steel parking ramps. . The Group provides customer services including aircraft regeneration (restoring aircraft to flying status), programmed depot-level maintenance, and parts reclamation, in addition to its historic storage and disposal functions. More than 4400 aircraft are stored at AMARG, so its a very impressive sight, which is even more impressive from the air. So we went to Double Eagle Aviation and hired a cessna with pilot for one hour and flew over the site to take some nice pictures.

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One of the many Ramstein hercs
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Norwegian C-130's
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recently arrived C-5's
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UK harriers
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row of fame
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Private scrapyard next to AMARG
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Just over one year after arrival in AMARG, NASA was still dismanteling this laser 747
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NATO TCA
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And to finish, some of Pima air and Space museum, which is next to AMARG

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Re: AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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:shock:
What could i say !.
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Very cool set. Interesting to see how AMARG changed over the past couple of years.
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Re: AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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Very nice shots from the air , it gives a very good impression of the storage area near Davis Monthan, is a sightseeing flight expensive, and how long will that flight last ?
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Re: AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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Full log coming soon ;-)

Everytime it is impressive.
Assume makes an ASS of U and ME.
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For a country with a tight budget, it is a great place to go shopping. Just buy off the shelve.... :lol:
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Nice photos.
The 5th shot of Pima museum just looks like a set of plastic aircraft models.


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Nice!

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:respect: nothing more can i say....
It's worth a visit as i see...
Just saving some money for the next couple years i think..???

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Re: AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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Impressive shots, thanks for sharing. Big challenge to write down all the serials... :mrgreen:
kind regards,

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Re: AMARG from the air 18/03/2013

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Very impressive! Thank you!
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