It’s like an airplane junkyard.
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F-16 Fighting Falcons sit in an airplane junkyard field at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. (AP) -
The weathered paint and markings of a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II are seen. (AP) -
Workers remove the missile rails from an F-4 Phantom ready to be broken down at the boneyard. (AP) -
Farewell messages written by the final crew are seen in the cockpit of a cargo plane stored at the aircraft boneyard in Tucson, Arizona. (AP) -
Row upon row of C-130 Hercules cargo planes are seen in at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group boneyard in Tucson, Arizona. (AP)
What is parked on that air base outside Tucson [TOO-saan], Arizona? Old warplanes!
Workers fix many. They store hundreds more. They will use parts to repair other planes.
Workers spray the planes with paint. It protects them from hot sun and strong winds.
READ MORE: The people who work at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base call the place an “airplane graveyard” or “boneyard.” Nearly all old Navy, Army, Air Force, and many other planes end up here. Sometimes workers fix up a plane. Every part of every aircraft they can save is one less part that needs to be bought or made somewhere else. These workers can see firsthand that moth and rust destroy our earthly possessions. Read Matthew 6:19-21 to learn what God tells us to do.
