The US Air Force has sent a dozen brand new cargo planes that cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars directly from the assembly line into a storage facility in the Arizona desert, according to a new report.
At least twelve C-27J Spartans, a medium-sized military transport plane, have been removed from military service and sent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. The base was given the nickname “boneyard” after years of inactivity. Five more planes are expected to be built and sent to the base by 2014, according to an investigative report by Ohio’s Dayton Daily News.
“They are too near completion for a termination to be cost effective,” said Air Force spokesman Darryl Mayer.
The Air Force has spent $567 million on 21 Spartans since 2007. While 16 of that 21 have been built, 12 of them now sit at Davis-Monthan alongside thousands of NASA and military flight vehicles exceeding $35 billion in value.
“This aerospace fleet provides a unique savings account from which military units throughout the world may withdraw parts and aircraft,” stated Davis-Monthan’s website. “The government earns additional income by selling aircraft to our allies.”
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