Aircraft boneyard

Boeing B-52s in storage or awaiting dismantlement in Arizona

Aircraft boneyard (or in the United States, Aircraft graveyard) is a storage area for aircraft that are retired from service. Most aircraft at boneyards are either kept for storage or turned into scrap metal. Deserts, such as those in the Southwestern United States, are good locations for boneyards since the dry conditions reduce corrosion and the hard ground does not need to be paved. The largest facility of its kind, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, is colloquially known as "The Boneyard".

Notable aircraft boneyards

Airport	City	Notes
Abilene Regional Airport	Abilene, Texas	Contains many retired Saab 340 aircraft, primarily from American Eagle Airlines
Alice Springs Airport	Alice Springs, Northern Territory	The first large-scale aircraft boneyard outside the United States
Davis-Monthan AFB	Tucson, Arizona	Home of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, contains mostly military aircraft
Kingman Airport	Kingman, Arizona
Laurinburg-Maxton Airport	Maxton, North Carolina	Contains various former Northwest Airlines aircraft being stripped for parts by Charlotte Aircraft Corporation
Mojave Air & Space Port	Mojave, California
Manas International Airport	Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	Soviet era aircraft began to appear after 1991.
Phoenix Goodyear Airport	Goodyear, Arizona
Pinal Airpark	Marana, Arizona	Home of Jet Yard, LLC and Aircraft Demolition, LLC
RAF Shawbury	Shrewsbury, Shropshire	From end of World War II to 1972.
Roswell International Air Center	Roswell, New Mexico	Contains the remains of several large passenger and cargo jets
Southern California Logistics Airport	Victorville, California