PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Any Boneyard's in Aus??
View Single Post
Old 3rd Dec 2008, 00:55
  #12 (permalink)  
HarleyD
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Aus, or USA, or UK or EU, or possibly somehwere in Asia.
Posts: 320
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Jamair,

i have been to Mojave quite a bit and while I have seena LOT of planes there, most of them are awaiting new lessees or owners, (saw heaps of the Ansett fleet there a few years ago). the actual bone yard for the aircraft that are awaiting scrap is smaller though still big by any Aus standard. didn't see any GA types though, maily large commercial and ex mil and old drones. there are acouple of C 133's waaay down the back.

Lots of vintage mil jets fly regularly there for TP training and weapons systems testing etc.

Saw them push an ex NASA F100 super sabre off the lot and into a hangar then fly it away 2 days later after god knows how many years out in the desert. the original F111 prototype is still there in a scrap yard on the bakersville rd. this is a very famous aircraft as I have heard many tales from the flight test crews about how it ended up with the two wings at slightly different angles and also how it 'accidently' got airbourne with concrete 'blivets attached to the underwing pylons during a high speed taxi run after it had been grounded officially. an aussie at the wheel i believe!!

NTPS has several GA types at their School as well as the macchis and Drakens, pitts, chippys, c.150as and even a cherokee 140 with full span flaps and spoilers. Apart from the USAF Aux Airvans at Flight Research Inc there is not much other GA stuff there that is not in private hangers.

HD
HarleyD is offline