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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Air Force Junkyard
Message-ID: <76@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 11:44:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 11:44:06 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Sep-84 03:46:04 EDT
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Sure, the Air Force's junkyard is at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona (?).
Don't think they have too much left in WWII iron, except some C-47s.  From
what I've heard, it's not so easy getting a whole carcass out of the AF,
the aircraft there are intended as reserve/parts supply or as scrap.  They
have stuff like T-34s and O-1s which are occasionally shipped out to
CAP, the forest service, and other agencies.  The US gov't has a policy
of only selling operationally capable aircraft to friendly nations- this
precludes selling an operational B-52 to a US citizen.  Typically, when
sold for scrap, they take a torch and cut through the main spar, before
releasing the aircraft.  Remember when the F-86 hit the ice cream parlor
a few years back, it was revealed that the Sabre was released as scrap,
and somebody had attempted to repair the spar.