Navy Pointy noses in Davis Monthan

[BigIron]

Thought theses were interesting pics of some recent additions to the bone yard....

F-14s http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1140395/M/

F/A-18s http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1161472/L/

S-3s http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1161404/M/ (kind of a pointy nose)

 

[Lonestar155]

Thanks for sharing those pictures!

 

[xmid]

Interesting to note how many of the F-18's appear to have been agressors.

 

[Brett327]

Interesting to note how many of the F-18's appear to have been agressors.

Desert paint scheme doesn't denote an agressor squadron/jet, but the red star probably does.

Brett

 

[Lonestar155]

Brett,
May you write me a PM, I need to ask you a question.

 

[A4sForever]

BOOT HILL ....

 

[Brett327]

Brett,
May you write me a PM, I need to ask you a question.

Why don't you write ME a PM and ask your question.

Brett

 

[BigIron]

I saw some A6s in that Boot Hill photo. Are those aircraft parts interchangeable with EA-6Bs, and if so are there cannibalization teams that make visits to AMARC?

I know we've made some visits for some hard to find parts.

 

[Brett327]

I saw some A6s in that Boot Hill photo. Are those aircraft parts interchangeable with EA-6Bs, and if so are there cannibalization teams that make visits to AMARC?

I know we've made some visits for some hard to find parts.

Some of the parts are compatible, but most are not. I know squadrons have cannibalized some hydraulic lines from the A-6 pig on a stick at NASWI and some other stuff from the one at El Centro.

Brett

 

[Pugs]

I saw some A6s in that Boot Hill photo. Are those aircraft parts interchangeable with EA-6Bs, and if so are there cannibalization teams that make visits to AMARC?

I know we've made some visits for some hard to find parts.

Not many parts are interchangable between the two. Lots of differences in the wings, gear, engines, basic stuff is Navy, TACANS some of the instruments and such. Smithsonian had an A-6 in a bag at the end of our hangar for a long time and if it had been useful it would have been empty when they came to get it.

 

[A4sForever]

I saw some A6s in that Boot Hill photo......

Here's some more ... a couple of long lines of A-6's among the others that I know and revere .... truly sad ... when I visited there @ middle 2004, they were chopping up the last of the Korean War birds and some from the early
60's ...

 

[gaetabob]

Is your average joe is allowed to retrieve aircraft from AMARC if the aircraft is up for chopping (i.e. for personal collection)?

 

[wink]

Is your average joe is allowed to retrieve aircraft from AMARC if the aircraft is up for chopping (i.e. for personal collection)?

No.

 

[Goober]

Besides, it's a real bitch finding a U-Haul trailer big enough to tow a jet.

 

[Old NFO]

There are also Navy F-111's in there (12 if I remember correctly...)
The P-3 community is pulling P-3A's out of DM and rebuilding them as they are lower time (per airframe) than most of the current fleet.
r,
jim