A Trip to the Boneyard - Part 2

After landing at Southern California Logistics Airport (KVCV), an aircraft "Boneyard," a surplus American Airlines MD80 has been towed to a permanent parking place in a field of other stored and decommissioned airplanes while waiting for a final decision on its fate.

 

The possibilities are a new owner buys or leases it and puts it back into service with a new air carrier :), the reuseable parts like flight instruments or structural pieces like engines or wing flaps get removed and resold as spares or replacements to operators still flying MD80s :confused:, or - worst case- a wrecking crew shows up to chop the airplane up in pieces to sell for scrap :(.

 

Any one of these scenarios could take months or years to play out. In the meantime, ex AA N9405T sits patiently in the desert sun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 9, 2022 by BillD22

Beautiful Boneyard shots Bill. :cool: Makes you wonder how many air hours/miles do all those planes represent? :pilot:

nice shots!

cool shots