309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group
Aircraft in storage at Davis–Monthan AFB
Active1964–present
CountryUnited States
BranchAir Force
TypeGroup
RoleEquipment Support
Part ofAir Force Materiel Command
Garrison/HQDavis–Monthan Air Force Base
Commanders
Current
commander		Colonel Neil O. Aurelio[1]
Insignia
309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group emblem[a][2]
Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center emblem[b]
Aerial view of the AMARC facility, 16 May 1992.
Welcome sign at AMARC before its 2007 name change.
Boeing 707s being used for salvage parts for the C-135 airframe at AMARG.
Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopters at AMARG
B-1 bombers in storage at AMARG
Navy and Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighters in storage at AMARG.

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309th AMARG),[3] often called The Boneyard, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, located on Davis–Monthan Air Force Base. The 309th AMARG was previously Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, and the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center.

The 309th AMARG takes care of nearly 4,000 aircraft, which makes it the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world. An Air Force Materiel Command unit, the group is under the command of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. The 309th AMARG was originally meant to store excess Department of Defense and Coast Guard aircraft, but has in recent years been designated the sole repository of out-of-service aircraft from all branches of the US government. The facility has also received US-made foreign military aircraft such as the Boeing CC-137 (from RCAF for use in the E-8 JSTARS program) and the Lockheed CP-140A Arcturus (2 from RCAF). The arid climate of the region makes the 309th AMARG an ideal location for storing aircraft, as there is very little humidity in the air that would corrode metal. Furthermore, the surface is hard so that the aircraft do not sink into the ground.[4]

  1. ^ Pittman, Teresa (14 June 2021). "309th AMARG welcomes new commander". Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  2. ^ Dollman, TSG David (8 August 2017). "Factsheet 309 Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AFMC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  3. ^ Official 309th AMRG Renaming Ceremony Archived 24 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ^ "How The World's Largest Airplane Boneyard Stores 3,100 Aircraft". YouTube. 28 February 2021. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021.


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