The museum is the World’s largest privately funded Aerospace Museum, has six buildings with planes and memorabilia and six acres of planes outside. Inside Hangar #1 we joined a tour and listened to the guide as we walked passed a replica of the Wright Brothers Plane, the “Timken” Learjet and a SR-71 Blackbird exhibit outside. The tour guide kept saying I’ll give you the shortened tour because of the heat but by the time we headed toward Hanger #2 it was time for the motor coach tour. This tour took us into the facilities of AMARC. The guide said there are 8,000 people working here and only eight are Air Force, everyone else is a government worker! This is where all the airplanes were we saw from the road yesterday. This facility has over 5,000 airplanes at a value when new of over $27 Billion. It’s not really a graveyard but rather a regeneration center. Arizona is ideal to store these planes because of the low humidity they don’t rust. There are over 5,000 planes sitting in the yards. I think we saw every kind of plane that was made! We even saw the Flying Fortress and the Super Guppy; boy, are these babies big. We saw Bombers, F-15, F-16, F-17 Fighters, Helicopters, Migs, Warthogs, B-52’s and Trainers, just to name a few. I can’t remember all we saw. You drive passed and look down rows and rows of planes, each covered by a special white vinyl type material. We saw some pretty strange planes and lots of ones being parted out. They take parts from several planes to refurbish others and can have any plane ready to fly between one week to one month time and the guide said they refurbished and readied 600 of these planes for Viet Nam and 150 for the Gulf War.