Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airplane "boneyard" of nearly 4,400 aircraft, the world's largest such aircraft graveyard, on a 2,600-acre site at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Boneyards are either kept for storage with s

Highsmith, Carol M.,, 1946-, photographer.

 

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airplane "boneyard" of nearly 4,400 aircraft, the world's largest such aircraft graveyard, on a 2,600-acre site at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Boneyards are either kept for storage with some maintenance or have their airplanes' parts removed for reuse or resale. Boneyard facilities are generally located in deserts, such as this one in the Southwestern United States, since the dry conditions reduce corrosion, and the hard ground does not need to be paved

 

2019-02-25.

 

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.

 

Notes:

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

 

Subjects:

America--Aerial views--Tucson Airplane Boneyard--Airplane boneyards--Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

United States--Arizona--Tucson.

 

Format: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.55837

 

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 55837

 

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