Nearly 3,300 decommissioned planes and helicopters are stored at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, where there’s little humidity to cause corrosion. Nicknamed the Boneyard, it’s the world’s largest aircraft dismantling and repurposing facility and the sole repository of out-of-service aircraft from all branches of the U.S. government.

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