Where do planes go when they can no longer be flown on?

Answer 1

Most of the time they go to "aircraft junkyards" and are stripped of any useful parts. One such junkyard is located in Marana, Arizona, in the middle of the desert. There are hundreds of old jets sitting in the sun out there, stripped of parts.

Answer 2

that entirely depends on the airline or leasing company that owns the airplane

usually one of three things

1.) The airline will either sell the airplane to an airline overseas (many airlines in africa and the middle east use very old airplanes bought from airlines in the United States/Europe)

2.) The owner will buy spots in the desert in the southwestern United States to store the airplanes. The desert is benficial because of the low humidity, which eats away at the airplanes paint and components. Picking away parts as they go, or just holding them there until they can find a potential buyer or send them to.....

3.) The scrap yard. Airplanes are made out of many valuable metals and composite parts. Everything on an airplane is expensive, because it is designed specifically for its function on that airplane. When airframes are scrapped, it's stripped of almost everything inside..then taken apart and melted down.

Here are some pics of some airforce and civilian planes stored in the above mentioned deserts

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1150989&size=L&width=1280&height=864&sok=JURER%20%20%28cynpr%20%3D%20%27Ivpgbeivyyr%20-%20Fbhgurea%20Pnyvsbeavn%20Ybtvfgvpf%20%28Vagreangvbany%29%20%28Trbetr%20NSO%29%20%28IPI%29%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=7

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0286039&size=L&width=1024&height=714&sok=JURER%20%20%28cubgb_qngr%20%20%3D%20%27Abirzore%2029%2C%201994%27%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=12

Answer 3

Commercial aircraft usually end up overseas or in places like Roswell New Mexico in a salvage yard where they are picked apart for useable parts. From time to time some one will come up with a really clever idea and turn a fuselege into a home, restaruant or an artificial reef. They often get used a training devices for airport fire fightining and evacuation drills.
Military aircraft end up in museums or the Recovery and Reclimation Center outside of Phoenix AZ.

Answer 4

airplane grave yard scrap pile what ever you wanna call it. airplanes that are no longer used go there planes such as old ww2 fighters or old commercial airplanes and even modern day planes that you see sometimes go there sometimes the planes are striped of there parts for recycling or spare parts

Answer 5

Continental Can Company

Answer 6

An aircraft graveyard, one of which is in the Mohave Desert, California.
From there, they are stripped of useable parts, then left over material is recycled.

Answer 7

The good ones go to Airplane Heaven.

Answer 8

There is an airplane graveyard in the Mojave Desert.

Answer 9

Scrap yard

Answer 10

The scrap yard