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Phantom Orbit

Another October 1996 view of AMARC, the giant storage area located in the Arizona desert near Tucson

 

Back then it was a predominance of stored F-4 Phantoms

 

The areas top right and foreground are all F-4's bar (in the upper left) a few F-14 Tomcats and some F-15 Eagles

 

The F-4's were mostly destined to be converted to QF-4's as aerial targets used in Live Missile Testing and Practice firing

 

Middle right are several C-130 Hercules with towards the top middle are a fleet of P-3 Orions

 

At the very top left is part of the arrivals area:

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where aircraft are processed prior to storage

 

Last but not least is 'Celebrity Row' which is just right of centre where one example of every type in the then current inventory is displayed

 

Today's Lockdown challenge is:

 

I can make out 35 different types in Celebrity Row.......can you?

Main types will do and I must admit a couple are so small, if anyone gets more than 30 I'll be impressed. For clarity there are 16 in the first section, 15 across the other side of the road in the same line then back opposite the first 16, another 4 facing them)

 

Scanned Kodak 35mm Transparency taken from an orbiting Cessna 172

 

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Uploaded on March 4, 2021
Taken on October 13, 1996