Friday, 12 July 2024

Number 28b: Visit the "Boneyard"


Completed: 8 May 2014
Pima Air and Space Museum and the 309th AMARG, Tucson, Arizona, USA


Part of my USA trip that I really wanted to do was visit “The Boneyard”, something I first saw on a list of “Cool things on google maps” type thing. It looked incredible and it was something I’ve wanted to visit ever since.






So while making my travel plan/map, I checked what it look like, and if I had the time window to visit Tucson, Arizona in between my 30th birthday and the kick off of the storm chasing tour.



I had myself a 6 day window, which would give me a day or two for the “The Boneyard” or AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) as it’s actually called and the Pima Air & Space Museum as well as a few other smaller things I found to do while in Tucson like the Titan Missile Museum, visiting El Guero Canelo from Man vs Food and the Sonora Desert Museum.

Unfortunately, the previous 12 days took their toll and I ended up catching a cold/flu and needing to use most of those 6 days as downtime. So aside from Pima and the Boneyard, all other plans were scrapped to be replaced with just resting at the hotel while I recovered. But downtime aside, and with the hot dry weather of Tucson, Arizona I made my way to the Pima Air & Space Museum.

Exploring the museum including the Boneyard tour was an awesome experience, seeing so many different aircrafts, including one of my personal favourites the SR-71 Blackbird inside the museum. The tour itself, required ID and approval with a special application, but once done it was past the secure military check point into the Boneyard. While we were restricted to being on the bus at all time, with zero stops or pauses, it was still pretty amazing to see so many military aircraft in such a tight area.









Then it was back to the museum for more exploring, including the outside area of the museum which had quite the assortment of different aircraft on display.









So with all that we can mark 28b as done, although with hindsight we can be thankful we did this back when we did because as of several years ago the tour inside the boneyard has been completely stopped due to updated USAF security requirements.







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