AMARC, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. Airplane, Junk, Yard,
Recycle, Aircraft, Boneyard
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| AMARC, Aerospace Maintenance and
Regeneration Center |
A major industrial center
occupying 2,600 acres, AMARC manages an inventory of more than 4,200
aircraft |
In addition to the historic
storage and disposition mission, the Center's highly skilled 662-member
workforce regenerates aircraft, returning them to flying status or
preparing them for overland shipment. |
The AMARC team also reclaims
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of parts to support global
warfighting operations. |
Although the Center's primary
customer is the Department of Defense, additional workloads come from
other national, regional and local government agencies, as well as
foreign allies. |
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| The Aircraft Division performs
unparalleled regeneration and specialized aircraft repair. |
The Commodities Division removes,
inspects, repairs and delivers aircraft parts and subassemblies in
support of U.S. and foreign allied contingency and training efforts. |
The Storage Division prepares
aircraft for short-and long-term storage and maintains them while in
storage. |
Before an aircraft is stored at
the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC), it goes
through a preservation process. On the aircraftÕs arrival, the
AMARC team removes classified equipment, and pilferable items. AMARC
provides an initial wash for Navy-Marine Corps aircraft to remove any
corrosive salt-water residue. |
AMARC team members cover engine
intakes, exhausts and any gaps or cracks in the upper portion of the
airframe with paper and tape. They then spray the covered areas and
other easily damaged surfaces (such as fiberglass radomes, fabric
control surfaces, and canopies) with a black, water-based latex
compound called "Spraylat." To prevent condensation within the
aircraft, the underside remains unsealed to allow free circulation of
air. |
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| AMARC is located in the town of
Tucson, Arizona in the USA. Arizona is a south, western state which
borders Mexico. One of the reasons that AMARC is situated here is the
dry, arid environment which exists in the area all year round. |
AMARC at Davis-Monthan Air Force
Base in Tucson, AZ, also called "the Boneyard," stores hundreds of
older or retired aircraft outdoors in the dry Arizona sun |
The planes are then scavenged for
parts, or restored to flying condition later for re-entry into active
service. AMARC is sometimes the only place to get spare parts for older
aircraft like the B-52 Bomber or F-111 Aardvark short of doing custom
builds, and will become increasingly important given the rising average
ages of the US tacair, bomber and transport fleets. |
The reason the Boneyard reference
exists is due to other work that AMARC carries out, that of reclamation
of spare parts and the eventual disposal of spent airframes. |
Many of the stored aircraft can be
returned to an operational status in a short period of time and there
is a continual process of anti-corrosion and re-preservation work which
keeps the aircraft in a stable condition during their stay. |
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