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Tuesday, October 08, 2013

New Air Force Planes Go Directly to ‘Boneyard’

C-27J SpartanNew cargo planes on order for the U.S. Air Force are being delivered straight into storage in the Arizona desert because the military has no use for them, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

A dozen nearly new C-27J Spartans have already been taken out of the US Air National Guard service and shipped to the so-called ‘boneyard’ at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.

Five more are expected to be built by April 2014, all of which are headed to the boneyard unless another use for them is found.

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