What Happened Inside the Airplane Graveyard?
I visited Mojave, California which is a famous airplane graveyard in the desert. More than 100 planes are stored here and it is end of the line for most planes that arrive in the graveyard. I went inside an ex Thai Airways B747-400 to take a look at the interior, much to my surprise the interior had been kept intact. Then I step inside an ex-Qantas B747 and found my way to walk on the 747 wing! I could almost touch the winglet!
Then we drove to Victorville to meet up with an airplane scraper Huy, Huy gave us a tour and explained how they tear down airplanes using an excavator. The useful parts, such as the engines, the avionics and the interior, are usually stripped out for sale . We went inside an ex United B747-400 and ex Singapore/VIM B777-200 to take a look.
Talaat Captan, owner of Air Hollywood, and Anthony Toth, co-owner of the Pan Am Experience, appear in this video as tour guides of the airplane graveyard storage.
Cutting and Scrapping a B777 - Inside The Airplane Graveyard
A few months ago, I visited an airplane graveyard at Victorville, Southern California Logistics Airport. There was a large amount of stored and retired airplanes, include a white Boeing 777 bought by Air Hollywood.
I am back to see how they cut the cockpit out of this B777, the cockpit cut is needed to bring it to Air Hollywood studio for a movie set. It is extremely interesting to see how the workers used a chain saw and fork lift to take out the B777 cockpit, in just over an hour. It is also interesting to see the bare interior of a B777. However, it is sad to see the plane without the cockpit. End of the line.
Don’t miss the next episode where I follow the cockpit to delivery at Air Hollywood. The owner gave me a behind the scenes tour on how Hollywood airplane movies are made inside Air Hollywood studio.
How a B747 Returns to the Skies After Years in Desert Storage?
2 Boeing 747’s have been given a second life and have returned to the skies after years of storage in the desert. It is quite unbelievable! In this video, I have documented the work behind the scenes.
An ex-Eva Air Cargo B747-400BCF has been re-activated out of its desert storage recently. Find out the work undertaken in order to return the B747 to flying condition. In the video, I interview Ferry Pilot Gloyd Robinson. He has shared with me details about the test’s undertaken, such as engine runs, high speed taxi and rejected take-off. It has taken almost 6 months for the B747 to be returned to an airworthy condition, under the FAA’s Designated Airworthiness Representatives (DAR) supervision.
This B747, Reg N27063, flew out of Mohave for San Bernardino on 30th July. It flew gear down. When it arrived at San Bernardino, it was put on jacks and performed a “gear swing” to ensure the landing gear was working. The new owner of this B747 is SkyOne FZE, based in the UAE. This B747 is expected to depart in a few weeks for heavy maintenance check overseas.
This was not the first B747 to be recently re-activated out of storage, an ex-Korean Air B747-400BCF, registration N570B, recently flew out of Pinal Air Park in Marana, AZ. Instead of ferrying empty to heavy maintenance overseas, it carried 80 tons of medical aid cargo to New Delhi from the US. This humanitarian mission was organized by many partners, including Another Joy Foundation.
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Victorville Airplane Graveyard; 500+ Aircraft | Southern California Logistics Airport June 2021
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The Last Qantas Boeing 747 - An Emotional Farewell
A grand farewell to the Qantas Boeing 747, flying from Australia to Los Angeles and to her final resting place at the Mojave airplane graveyard.
Qantas’s B747 is the most iconic plane and has served the Australian airline for nearly 5 decades. I was in Los Angeles and Mojave to witness her final arrival before retirement. It was a bittersweet day to see her final landing on July 24th 2020 in the Mojave Desert, California (Landing by Captain Ewen Cameron, 11:50 local time).
After her landing I was able to board the 747, I got the chance to interview the pilots and joined them for a final walk around. There were just so many emotions running through everyone while bidding farewell to the most iconic airplane of all time.
A lot of my love towards aviation was inspired from the Qantas B747, in the video I share my stories growing up with her. Not only will I miss the 747, I will also miss the human stories from this plane; sharing the laughter, the passion, different cultures and experiences through the shared love of B747 that brought us together! Onwards and Upwards.
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Pinal Airpark Airplane Graveyard Tour | 732, A340, 747, A330 | April 2023 [4K]
Pinal Airpark Airplane Graveyard Tour | 732, A340, 747, A330 | April 2023
Little history on Pinal Airpark: The airfirld was originally built in 1942 to train soldiers for the ongoing war, WWII. Between '42 and '45, over 10,000 soldiers were trained here including over 2,000 Chinese soldiers. Many barracks, still seen today, held these soldiers. After the war was over, the airfield went dormant for a few decades until, similar to Victorville (
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BIZARRE! Airplane Graveyard of Bangkok + Routes Asia 2023
I visited Thai Airways restaurant in Bangkok. A lot of used airplane seats and parts turned into furniture which makes the place unique. The food price was very reasonable too. After lunch, I joined my friend Rena in showing me the airplane graveyard in Bangkok. In the middle of the city, there are 747 and MD-80 abandoned. Unfortunately, when we arrive at the graveyard, the planes were gone! They became the ghost planes of Bangkok!
Next, I followed Patee, who is launching a new airline called Really Cool Airlines to another airplane in the middle of the night market. This airplane is a L1011 Tristar from Thai Sky Airlines which I have flown on it once. It is now a restaurant and cocktail bar in the middle of ChangChui market.
Next, I visited Routes Asia 2023 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I went behind the scenes to speak with airlines, airports, and tourism authorities about their desire to reconnect in Asia and what’s new in their network strategies.
Take a look at the video with many great insights from airlines such as Finnair, Fiji Airways, STARLUX Airlines, Thai Lion Air and airports such as Melbourne Airport, Edmonton International Airport (YEG), and Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority all wanting to expand their Asia presence.
The event is hosted by Airports of Thailand Public Company Limited (AOT).
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We did NOT cause any damage to any objects of VALUE. We did NOT take anything from the visited facilities.
Mojave Air & Space Port Airplane Graveyard 4K Drone Footage
Shot on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro in 4k over the Mojave Air & Space Port, otherwise known as Airplane Graveyard. Enjoy!
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Haunting Abandoned Airplanes Around the World!
As you can probably imagine, aircraft are incredibly expensive to produce, maintain and fly. Which is what makes it all the stranger that someone should just abandon one! Even so, it does happen. Quite a lot! Here are 10 Most Stunning Abandoned Airplanes!
1. Bristol Freighter Type 170
This aircraft was designed to carry cargo for WWII, but WWII was finished before the plane got built so it used for commercial flights instead. In the 12 years it was in production, 214 planes were made, and of these, 68 had accidents, so it's not surprising that today only 13 aircraft remain intact. One of these remaining aircraft lies abandoned on Beaverlodge lake in Canada. In 1956, the plane had landed on the frozen lake and was braking when the left main gear broke through the ice, this caused the left wing to hit the ice and bend. The plane was later deemed irreparable, dragged to the edge of the lake, and abandoned.
2. Lockheed Jetstar
Elvis Presley owned 3 jets, 1 was a Convair 880 called Hound Dog II, the second was a Lockheed Jetstar called Lisa Marie, both planes can be found on display in the Graceland Museum. His third plane was also a Lockheed Jetstar that Elvis bought in 1976 and then sold in 1977.
3. Belgium Hangar
A Belgium man called Laurent Burnier discovered an abandoned hangar hidden in the countryside. Inside were 5 damaged airplanes, 4 Stampe SV.4 fuselages, dozens of jet engines all lined up in neat rows, and around 30 to 40 wings perfectly stored.
4. Swamped B17
Captain Frederick Eaton jr was flying this Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress during a raid on Japanese ships over Papua New Guinea on February 23, 1942, when he was intercepted by the Japanese. During the fight, he ran out of fuel and was forced to make an emergency landing in a swamp, the crew survived but the plane wasn't salvaged because the war was still being fought.
5. Russian Buran space shuttle.
The Buran was Soviet Russia's answer to NASA's Orbiter space shuttle and it completed its first unmanned flight in 1988. It was programmed to have a second, longer, unmanned flight by 1993 but the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to a lack of funding, and the project was abandoned. The Buran and two additional incomplete orbiters were put into a hangar for storage.
6. Carlos Lehder's C-46
Just off-shore of the Normans cay island is a semi-submerged Curtis C-46. In the late 1970s, the Island of Norman's cay was used by the Medellin Cartel for drug smuggling. One day a pilot called British Andy was in Florida when he saw a Curtis C-46 that he thought Carlos Lehder might want to use for his Normans cay smuggling operation, and so he flew it to the island. After several days of heavy drinking British Andy decided to do some test take-offs and landings. As he approached for the first landing he miscalculated, touched down too early, and clipped a mound of earth that ripped off the left gear causing the plane to tip, the left propellor then struck the runway.
7. Bartini Beriev VVA-14
Soviet Russia wanted to develop an aircraft that could take out US Polaris missile submarines. For this, they required an aircraft that could fly long distances at altitude, take-off and land vertically from land or sea, and fly low and slow over the ocean by taking advantage of the Ground effect. To accomplish this, they hired the Italian aircraft designer Robert Bartini. By the end of 1972, Bartini had completed stage 1 and his VVA-14 prototype completed its first flight, taking off from a conventional runway.
8. 737 airliner Mumbai
A decommissioned Boeing 737 was being dismantled and transported through the Indian city of Mumbai, at night. The truck driver transporting the fuselage got lost and took a wrong turn and ended up in a narrow street with a flyover too low for him to pass under. Unable to move forward or turn around the driver decided to unhitch the trailer and abandon the 75ft/23m long fuselage in the middle of the street.
9. MiG in Iraq.
When allied forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they didn't find the weapons they were looking for, they did, however, find something rather strange at Al-Taqaddum Air Base. Hidden under camouflage netting, hardened aircraft shelters, and even buried in the sand were 51 abandoned aircraft. MiG-25s, Su-25ks, MiG-21s, various F-7Bs, and even an Ilyushin Il-76 transport. It is still unknown when or why these aircraft were abandoned.
10. More Abandoned MiGs
In Hungary, in a farmer's field are over 70 MiG-21 aircraft that still belong to the Hungarian military. These Soviet-built planes were initially sent to the field in the 1980s in preparation for a scheduled upgrade program, however, the fall of communism in Hungary and the dissolution of the Soviet Union meant that these upgrades were delayed and then canceled. So now, these out-of-date planes just sit in this field, ghostly echos of a troubled past.
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The HUGE AIRPLANE GRAVEYARD in Australia
Helicopter flight over the airplane storage facility at Alice Springs Airport. See the Airplane Graveyard with Singapore Airlines A380s, Cathay Pacific 777s, Tigerair, Jetstar, HK Express, Cebu Pacific and more. I fly over the graveyard before touring Alice Springs for the day.
Thanks to Kat and Alice Springs Helicopters for the awesome flight over the Airplane Storage Facility in this video. I paid for my own 20 minute flight so this isn't sponsored or anything. But if you want to do the same check them out.
Lots of aircraft on the ground in this video. Not Your Usual Airbus! but in this Daily Dose of Aviation you'll see Airbus A380 Boeing 777 Boeing Dreamliners and smaller jet airliners. See What Happened Inside the Airplane Graveyard and Where jumbo jets go to die with Hundreds of airliners ABANDONED in the desert! Answering the question Where Have Airlines Parked and Stored Their Planes During COVID-19?
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Where Airplanes Go To Die - Boneyards Of The World
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Have you ever wondered what happens to an aircraft once it has served out its usefulness? Many obsolete planes find their final resting spots in an airplane graveyard, where they sit dejectedly among their fellow former flying brethren. Lots of them are still technically airworthy, but they are parked in the desert or some out-of-the-way place due to a slump in demand, waiting for an aviation uptick and their chance to soar again. Some are dismantled for scrap metal or cannibalized for spare parts. These fleets of abandoned behemoths make for some rather haunting yet beautiful images.
Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Group (AMARG), Arizona
The largest airplane graveyard is in Tuscon, where the dry, arid Arizona desert keeps rust and corrosion at a minimum. Many of the 4,400 planes in this storage and maintenance facility are recommissioned or repurposed, but others just remain as a relic to their former glory. The place is nicknamed “The Boneyard” and an aerial view from above looks particularly striking.
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona
AMARG is part of Davis-Monthan AFB, where hundreds of vintage military planes sit in silence. Since 1946, it was used to house old planes from World War II. The last plane to leave Saigon as it fell rests alongside disassembled Cold War bombers.
Alice Springs Airport, Australia
The “Red Center” of Australia’s Northern Territory is about as dry as it gets, providing perfect conditions for big metal objects to hang out without much deterioration. The is the first large-scale aircraft storage, preservation and graveyard facility outside the United States, and it focuses primarily on Asia-Pacific carriers.
Roswell International Air Center, New Mexico
See if you can spot any abandoned spacecraft in amongst the parked airplanes in limbo at this Roswell graveyard. This facility is where the crashed UFO was apparently taken for analysis in 1947, at least according to some conspiracy theorists.
RAF Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
This former Royal Flying Corps airfield dates back to WWI and now serves primarily as a storage depot for grounded obsolete aircraft. In March 1994, Blackburn Buccaneer subsonic strike jets were retired from Royal Air Force service. Some of these two-seater bombers are on display at aviation museums around the world, but many have come to this Shrewsbury facility to be stripped and recycled, mere ghosts of their former glory.
Southern California Logistics Airport, California
Where do commercial planes rest in peace? Many of them end up in the desert, including this one near Victorville, about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Lots of old jumbos are spending their retirement years here.
Mojave Air and Space Port
About 1000 commercial airlines are mothballed at this Civilian Aerospace Test Center. At an elevation of 2,791 feet and in the heart of the Mojave desert means conditions are ideal for parking these used birds. Boeing, Airbus, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed planes from many major airlines are stored and scrapped here.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nigeria
The Lagos airport has an adjacent field that is littered with the carcasses of old planes from failed airlines. Most are dilapidated and have been picked apart for scrap.
Phoenix Goodyear Airport, Arizona
Here is a row of American Airlines DC-10s at the end of their life cycle, sitting side by side in the arid Arizona desert awaiting their ultimate fate. There’s almost an artistic sculptural quality to their formation.
Manas International Airport, Kyrgyzstan
Since 1991, this boneyard in Bishkek has hosted lots of disbanded Soviet relics, including some Aeroflot Tu-134 aircraft.
Khodynka Aerodrome, Russia
Moscow’s former Khodynka Aerodrome (the birthplace of Russian aviation) is littered with 20-odd rotting relics and decaying war-birds from a bygone era, remnants of an abandoned museum. Juxtaposed with modern Moscow, these rusty shells have a rather eerie yet captivating quality.
Christmas Morning Exploring ABANDONED Boeing 747s
Christmas morning in 2021 presented an amazing sunrise opportunity to explore a pair of abandoned Boeing 747 airplanes. Although I photographed these planes several years earlier, this explore was a chance to document them in 4K video.
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Marana Pinal Airpark 2022 | PRIVATE Tour of Arizona's Airplane Graveyard | 747, A340, and more!
Marana Pinal Airpark 2022 | Tour of Arizona's Airplane Graveyard | TWA 741, NWA 742, SAS A343 etc.
Little history on Pinal Airpark: The airfirld was originally built in 1942 to train soldiers for the ongoing war, WWII. Between '42 and '45, over 10,000 soldiers were trained here including over 2,000 Chinese soldiers. Many barracks, still seen today, held these soldiers. After the war was over, the airfield went dormant for a few decades until, similar to Victorville ( and Mojave ( the world needed somewhere to store unneeded aircraft who had been retired. Northwest Airlines was the first airline to store some aircraft here before the TWA 747-100 seen at 7:12 landed here for the last time in October of 1996. Since then, thousands of aircraft have landed here...some leave after long term storage like the the Dream Lifter we saw, whereas some never leave similar to the ANA 742s, NWA 742Fs, the TWA 741, and, due to the pandemic, the SAS A343s. Hope you all enjoy this exclusive tour!
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What Are The World’s Largest Aircraft Graveyards?
It’s always sad to see aircraft being retired and scrapped. But where do these planes end up when this happens? Today we’ll take a look at aircraft graveyards and highlight some of the largest around the world.
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