Preserving History, Making It Accessible

摘要

One of the Boneyard's functions is to preserve at least one example of almost everything the Air Force has flown over its 65 years. In some ways it serves as an overflow of the National Museum of the US Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. "History row" includes a number of one-of-a-kind or historical aircraft, such as the Boeing YC-14 short takeoff craft and a T-46, the canceled successor to the T-37. The sole YAL-1, the Airborne Laser laboratory, is also at the AMARG, although it does not yet enjoy protected status and could conceivably be a parts donor without action by Congress. Significant examples of aircraft "nose art" are also sometimes preserved by the AMARG.