Tucson's US Air Force museum & bone yard

Before I catch the short hop up to Las Vegas I’d like to share another 2 more interesting Tucson sights with you. These attractions are airplane “Bone yard” at Davis Monthan Air Force and the Pima Air & Space Museum.

The Air and Space Museum is the largest one of its type west of the Rockies . You can see over 270+ aircraft in an open air environment. Exhibits here range from the Wright brothers to space travel. Here you will walk among the giants of our aviation heritage, including military, commercial, and civil aviation. Among them are a B-29 Super Fortress, the SR-71 Blackbird, and a rare World War II German V-1 "buzz bomb."

They also offer a tour of the United States Air force’s Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), also known as the Bone yard. This is a huge parking lot of decommissioned aircraft and a spare parts and recycling depot. Due to the low humidity in the desert planes are stored or “moth balled” here. There has to be billions of dollars worth of equipment parked here.

If you enjoy planes both of these are worth the visit. I’ve been to the Smithsonian air and space museums in Washington DC plus the one at Dayton’s Wright Patterson air base and would include the Pima museum in the same category of excellent.

OK now it’s on to Vegas! I promise.