The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, formerly known as Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, is a United States Air Force aircraft and missile storage and maintenance facility. The 309th AMARG takes care of nearly 4,000 aircraft, which makes it the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world. The 309th AMARG was originally meant to store excess Department of Defense and Coast Guard aircraft, but has in recent years been designated the sole repository of out-of-service aircraft from all branches of the US government.[1]
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The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center is featured in Armed & Defenseless.
Coyotes seen under the planes.
It was introduced in 3 days after people when 4,000 fighter jets, bombers, and other aircraft line in formation in the Arizona Desert where the fleet is covered in a ghostly white and coyotes prowl into the grounds. The show gave information that it was a graveyard and storage for mostly military aircraft in the time of humans and the planes are better prepared for life after people than anywhere else on Earth thanks to the planes being covered in a stark-white latex coatings known as Spraylat to keep them in near pristine condition. Jack R. Kruger stated that the Spraylat is applied to all around the cockpit, fuel cells, fuel tanks, every screw, and inside the internal fuel systems. The seals keep out dust and rainwater while the white color reflects heat making the interiors of the protected aircraft never rise more than 10 degrees above the outside temperature, no matter how harsh the sun. However, the end of the birds of war won't from the sun, but from the ground below. This foreshadows its fate.
In 20 years after people, the aircrafts are showing signs of distress and years of high winds have scattered the birds of wars like toys on a giant playground unlike being periodically realigned in the time of humans. Dave Roe stated that the aircrafts have vertical stabilizer on it and makes the aircraft behave like a wind vane. He also explains they've had microbursts in the neighborhood of 120 miles an hour which is enough to make most of the aircrafts move around a bit. In the time of humans, caretakers also have to maintain the protective coatings on any planes that might be pressed into service again, but those that didn't, suffered the consequences. Dave Roe shows a Spraylat that's no longer functioning anymore and explains that rainwater can get under and seep along the Spraylat underneath the layer of protection.
Paint starts to peel off the planes.
The fate is then revealed when two decades without maintenance have every plane in the yard takes a beating with paint wearing and the corroding joints are rusting. The canopies are clouding from UV and the engines of the fighter jets have become homes for birds. Dave Roe stated that the wings on the aircrafts are not likely to fall off being the strongest structure in the aircraft which support the aircraft in flight and on the ground taking all the ground loads. He continues that after people, there'll be wings still attached to the aircraft. However, the planes won't stay long enough to lose their wing. Dave Roe shows an example of erosion caused by rainwater runoff which is common to all the aircraft stored in the area making it a very good chance that the erosion could occurred in a single storm. The desert rains sculpted out soil from below and the desert winds sweep in dust from above, allowing the earth to begins to swallow the entire mighty fleet.
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