The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson houses the largest aircraft and missile facility in the world. The Arizona "boneyard" has nearly 4,000 planes that are maintained, recycled for parts, and stored across miles of the desert landscape.
Photographer Bernhard Lang visited the site recently to document the aircraft, which are organized in neat rows and grouped by model. Containing both rusted and disassembled machines and those in pristine condition, the boneyard is designed for preservation “in order to make (the planes) airworthy again if necessary, a current topic in times of the Ukraine war and the global discussion about deliveries of arms,” Lang says.
[Photos © Bernhard Lang]
Mick Hartley 
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