Spanning more than 2,600 acres (1,050 hectares) in the Arizona Desert, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group ...

There are dozens of prominent boneyards around the world where. In some cases, thousands of aircraft are kept here, either waiting to be broken up or left in storage before returning to service.

There are approximately 8,000 "end-of-life retired aircraft" sitting in deserts, jungles, and storage yards across the globe. Another 11,000 planes are expected to join them over the next 10 years.