Please enable JavaScript to contact me. Shaw, Frederick J. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas ASIN: B000NYX3PC, This page was last edited on 20 October 2020, at 19:10. As airlines feel the bite from the downturn in travel demand, carriers are beginning to park surplus aircraft. Brett Smith recently visited Marana and sent in these pictures of some of the stored aircraft visible from the fence. emailE=('info@' + 'ascentmro.com') document.write('' + emailE + '<\/a>') Its primary function serves as a boneyard for civilian commercial aircraft, where the area's dry desert climate mitigates corrosion of the aircraft. With Arizona’s dry weather, many companies have their sights set on the desert. @ 2020 Destinworld Publishing Ltd - All Right Reserved. We provide our customers with the flexibility to meet your aircraft needs. Miller told KGUN 9, American Airlines has paid Marana Regional Airport more than $60,000 since April. Goetz says planes started arriving over the weekend. These registration numbers were then changed to the true numbers of 44-83785. Storage & ramp capacity for over 400 aircraft, Approximately 500 acres of secure storage area, OEM and customized storage and preservation programs, Concrete aircraft parking and flight-ready services, Proficient in maintenance manual and other customized storage programs, Maintenance of aircraft regulatory compliance, Airframe and engine sealing and preservation, 24-hour secured facility with roaming patrols. “Starting in May they started putting some of them back into service, at a rate of two planes per month," said Steve Miller, the airport director at the Marana Regional Airport. //--> “Get your covers, run your APU, do all of your flight control checks, make sure you’re not missing anything,” said Mitch Sluder, an Aircraft Mechanic. TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The coronavirus has thrown the travel industry into a tailspin. “At the Marana Airport, we don’t have maintenance staff, so we are working with [Jet Yard],” said Miller. The Western Army National Guard Aviation Training Site (WAATS) and other numerous Army National Guard units are located inside SAHP. LIVE UPDATES: Tucson-area high schools cancel football, other fall sports seasons. FAA approves Boeing 737 MAX for return to... America’s Early 767 Fleets. This included water, sewer, and gas systems that were still used until some problems developed in the 1990s. Intermountain was infamous for its thinly veiled CIA special ops which included development and use of the Fulton Skyhook, but its cover was its non-scheduled freight and maintenance operations. “I don’t think [profits from parking planes] nearly touches the dramatic offset in passengers,” said Goetz, “but every little bit helps.”. Five satellite airfields were established for Marana during World War II: The infrastructure installed at Marana during World War II was extensive. Copyright 2020 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. These are the Oldest 747s in Existence. Airlines are reducing their flight operation capacities by 70% or more. It acts as a "boneyard" for civilian commercial aircraft as well as a site for airliner storage and reconfiguration. 24641 Pinal Air Park Road Hannah Tiede began her career in broadcast journalism in Canada and eventually made her way south, joining the KOLD News 13 team in the late 2019. There was also a massive storm drain system. [4], Pinal Airpark also hosts the US Special Operations Command's Parachute Training and Testing Facility. Pinal Airpark is a county-owned commercial aircraft storage, maintenance, repair and overhaul facility. Any aircraft maintenance required while in storage can be handled by our qualified technicians in an expedient and professional manner. Miller said if the plan is to put one of these stored planes back in service per month, he expects them to be at the Marana Regional Airport until at least the summer of 2021. 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, "Evergreen Maintenance Center, Inc. Appoints Colin Buxton As Vice President of Sales And Marketing", "Photos: Boeing 747-306M Aircraft Pictures", "Brett Shadle Dead: Navy SEAL Killed In Arizona Parachuting Accident", "Pinal Airpark: Once-secretive aircraft boneyard slowly opens its gates", Field Guide To Aircraft Boneyards: Pinal Airpark, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinal_Airpark&oldid=984559231, World War II airfields in the United States, Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Arizona, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from August 2018, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Air Force Historical Research Agency, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Pinal Airpark (IATA: MZJ, ICAO: KMZJ, FAA LID: MZJ) is a county-owned, public-use airport located 8 miles (7.0 nmi; 13 km) northwest of the central business district of Marana, in Pinal County, Arizona, United States.[1].

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