They are just a few miles from the RV park just off of the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base one the edge of Tucson. They bill themselves as "one of the world's largest non-government funded aerospace museums."
With over 80 acres and 300 aircraft, who's to argue.
I suspect they have an advantage over most air museums as they are located across the road from the "309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)", sometimes known as the "bone yard".
Due to the extremely low humidity this is where surplus aircraft are stored, out doors of course. Planes come here to wait until they are needed again, to be salvaged for parts, or to get shredded when no longer needed. Those aircraft represent a whole lot of our dollars sitting there wasting away. I guess they claim to earn a few million dollars in cost savings by recycling, but that of course does not count the initial cost of these planes. They even had a row of planes that went directly from the manufacturing floor to this facility. Talk about a waste.
The web site: Tucson Pima Air and Space Museum
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