GulfstreamGuy From United States, joined Jul 1999, 615 posts, RR: 6 Posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1650 times:
I love looking at the pictures of the "bone yards" from across the US, but I was wanting to know if there are any non-USA bone-yards anywhere else in the world? I realize the climate in the desert southwest is perfect for "preserving" the planes but I am not sure about other "desert" areas of the world.
Fanofjets From United States, joined Apr 2000, 1672 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1565 times:
Though I do not know of any boneyards the size of Davis-Monathan, Victorville, or Mojave, dumped planes can be found throughout the world (albeit on a much smaller scale).
Panama at least used to be one of the better known sites; I wonder whether it still is.
Try typing "abandoned" or "derelict" into the A.net search engine; you will probably net some interesting results.
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Afay1 From United States, joined Oct 2001, 1245 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1223 times:
Any Russian sizeable airport usually has a boneyard of some kind. In Moscow, Bykovo cargo airport is very derelict endowed, there is a bunch of decomissioned (not neccesarily derelict) aircraft at SVO, and Zhukovsky military base has a lot of "stored" aircraft, many one-of-a-kind.
N1120a From France, joined Dec 2003, 22904 posts, RR: 79 Reply 5, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1167 times:
Then again, those FR 732s are going to a spares and scrapping company, so they might end up in the Mojave Desert sooner rather than later. I would think that a Russian airport would be an awful place to store planes. The whole point of the desert is that it is hot and dry, preserving the planes. Moscow is definately not that.
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TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4605 posts, RR: 38 Reply 6, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1155 times:
Dinard and Chateauroux are two such places in France. At Dinard, there are chiefly parked single aisle jetliners - e.g. F-28, MD-80, F-27 etc, while at Chateauroux, there is also quite a sizeable fleet of widebodies, e.g. B747, DC-10 and A300, which is, in some cases, already being dimantled.
There are quite a few pics in the a.net database from both airports.
I'm not so sure if Nimes in southern France is also a storage facility, but there is at least a large aircraft maintenance station.
[Edited 2004-10-26 08:45:35]
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RICARDOAB From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 171 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1033 times:
In the UK, there is Bournemouth which is home to a large number of ex-European BAC 1-11s, ex Sabena 737-229s and some A300B2's; along with European's 747-236's (most of these are still in use).
Southend is home to a number of old airliners. There used to be an ex Caledonian Airlines L-1011 derelict there. Other sites include Kemble, Bruntingthorpe (which is home to an ex-Olympic 747-200), and Manston (lots of parted-out 747Fs that belong to MK Airlines, Air Atlanta, etc.
SPL From Netherlands, joined Sep 2003, 148 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 990 times:
At AMS we got our own 'little Majove'!!!
G-BDXO ex-European Aircharter B747-200 (no idea what will happen with this one).
CS-TMR Luzair Lockheed L-1011 (4 times engine problems @ AMS).
PH-BUK ex-KLM B747-200 (SUD) (will go to the Aviadrome in Lelystad).
S2-ADT Bangladesh Airlines B747-200 (ex-Kalitta, now grounded @ AMS).
Petertenthije From Netherlands, joined Jul 2001, 2621 posts, RR: 10 Reply 13, posted (4 years 1 month 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 667 times:
Woensdrecht in the Netherlands has a small airport with stored Fokkers. Mostly F28s and F100s. Most of the F100s are there undergoing maintenance and/or conversion at the local Stork/Fokker fascilities. Most the F28s are unlikely to fly again I think.
Also a few F50s and I believe one F27 which is being screpped (Lina Congo).
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