Google map study of AMARC boneyard

[hercules130]

That is strange about the C-131s/T-29s. I too thought that they'd all be long gone from AMARG at this point but who knows?

-Derek

Most of the aircraft listed and discussed are not in AMARG, but in surrounding scrape yards.

I found many types of aircraft in both areas. About 10 C-131's still in AMARC, also many S-2 Tracker types, and about 12 B-57's also. All could be seen in the actual AMARC area. Still plenty of F-4's and lots of F-111's. I did not see any F-14's though.

Hope that help!

-Nate

I will have to take a better look, only 131/29 I caught was on celebrity row, number of S-2s and P-2s still in AMARG. Even a handful of 123, excluding the Ranch Hand birds of course. Hard to believe all the Tomcats have come and gone. If you look due East of the Whiskey ramp about 240 yards that entire empty field was filled with CH-37s, all gone now.

This may not be news to you gents and ladies but I learned that you can go back to an earlier imagery time on Google Earth. Amazing to see what has happened between my DM days (97-01) and now.

Gary

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[Nathan]

That would be great! Yeah I took another scan on google earth and could not find any F-14's. I really wish they would let people buy the planes. Some have been there 30+ years. Can't see a C-131 a threat to anyone. I am guessing some of these older types are there to keep parts for those that still fly. I know there are a few C-131 types still flying. Plus the S-2's are used as fire bombers. Still it would be great if they would sell them to collectors rather then scrap dealers.

[hercules130]

That would be great! Plus the S-2's are used as fire bombers.

Nathan if I recall correctly Marsh did work right out in the yard on several of the machines intended for conversion or perhaps just parts. I assume it was Marsh any how.

Gary

[Ztex]

Plus the S-2's are used as fire bombers

Those S-2's are just in California right? From What I understand is that federal contract firefighters must be 4 engine airplanes....
I still think the S-3 would make a great firefighter....

Lot's of good use could be made of a lot of those airplanes....

[bluehawk15]

Imagine B-52 fire bombers!

[Nathan]

bump

[67Cougar]

Very cool, indeed. I had not used Bing until now, the quality is very good. A couple of things I noticed ...

The overheads were not shot at the same time ars the Bird's Eye.

The time frame on the Bird's eye shots looks to be 2006/2007ish. There is a level of construction on the base itself I saw during a visit, which has since been expanded. There are a large number of F-111s, F-14s, and A-7s, C-141s, and T-33s in the Bird's Eye views - and those are about gone now from what I understand.

Fascinating stuff.

[Nathan]

bump

[RareBear]

One thing I have noticed from looking at a lot of Bing Maps Birds Eye photos is that not all of the Birds-Eye photos were taken at the same time. Also some locations only have Birds-Eye photos taken from one direction. Not all of the adjacent Birds-Eye photos are the same magnification (distance from the ground). As you scan along the Birds-Eye photos at one location, its again obvious they were not taken at the same time.

I've seen some Birds-Eye photos taken as late as Feb or Mar of 2010.

Walt