F-111.net
The website dedicated to all variants of the F-111
The Aircraft Maintenance And Regeneration Center (AMARC), features regularly as the resting place of most of the remaining F-111. AMARC is on the edge of Davis-Monthan AFB in the Arizona desert, and has an enormous number and variety of US armed forces aircraft in indefinite storage. The dry desert air prevents significant corrosion to the airframes, and enables them to used when required for spare parts. The same is the case for the F-111s deposited there, with many stripped to mere carcasses. A number of the remains have been sold for scrap.
Few F-111 aircraft have ever been regenerated from AMARC. One aircraft which has escaped to fly again from AMARC is F-111G 68-272 aka RAAF A8-272 'The Boneyard Wrangler'. This aircraft was selected for purchase by the RAAF after its arrival to Davis-Monthan AFB. 68-272 was patched back together by 'Petey and Crew 5' and hobbled to SMALC at McClellan AFB, Sacramento for reconditioning and eventual RAAF ferry to Australia.
F-111G A8-272 in service with the RAAF.
Another interesting day at AMARC looking at the early F-111s. Photos by Gary Bayer.
