Uma empresa norte americana foi contratada para realizar a venda através de leilão de diversas aeronaves militares que encontram-se no deserto de Tucson, Arizona, onde milhares de aeronaves retiradas de operação nos EUA aguardam um destino. Mas nesse caso, os aviões vendidos serão para sucata.

Através do contrato, a empresa oferece para venda aviões de combate e equipamento militar que estão localizados na Base Aérea de Davis Monthan, que serão vendidos pelo peso anunciado e não por período de tempo. Dentre os tipos de aeronaves estão incluídas, mas não limitadas a essas, F-111 Aardvark, C-5 Galaxy, C-130 Hercules, F-15 Eagle, S-3 Viking, A-4 Skyhawk, F-14 Tomcat, H-53, F-4 Phantom e C-141 Starlifter, e algumas aeronaves podendo incluir motores, componentes de mísseis e iluminadores de alvos.


Row after row of old F4 Phantoms--The US doesn't use them anymore, but some of our allies do, so we keep them around for spares and replacement aircraft. Spare part sales help the facility return $11 for every $1 spent.
Note the white sealant around the cockpit windows and other openings. This is to control the temperature inside the plane--keeping it only about 10-15 degrees above the ambient 95 degree weather, as opposed to jumping into ranges like 200 degrees that could hurt the plane. It gave the planes a strange air--I'd never seen anything like it before.
An enormous C-5 Galaxy transport was being processed while we were there--they were removing the engines for storage, and getting the rest of the plane ready for mothballing alongside 18 others being retired as the new C-17 come into service. Incredible to see the scale of these things, even more to see ten or twelve parked under the desert sun.
Some engines being stored in canisters. Made me and several other Star Wars nerds think of the pod-racing scenes from Star Wars: A Phantom Menace. Again, very strange sights.

Mas não pode ser removida nenhuma peça dessas aeronaves, e após serem adquiridas, precisam ser desmilitarizadas e desmanchadas fora do local, mas numa empresa que esteja situada a menos de 50km do local.

Fonte: CAVOK