
According to a report in Australia Aviation, the long term aircraft storage park is close to its maximum capacity of 100 planes. Until the travel downturn, it was rare to see more than 20 aircraft there at any one time. But with thousands of aircraft sitting idle worldwide, airlines began sending their planes down to Alice Springs earlier this year. By July, the park was looking after nearly 50 aircraft.
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Storage. Aircraft that are taken out of operation for a duration that exceeds a period of 3 to 6 months, and for a reason not relating to the performance of a scheduled maintenance event, modification or any other predetermined action, are considered to be in a state of storage.
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TARMAC Aerosave offers aircraft & engine owners and operators parking space for more than 270 aircraft and 80 engines in Europe. We can accommodate all types of aircraft from regionals to A380 types. TARMAC Aerosave's mission is to preserve and maximize the asset value during its storage period by applying rigorous Maintenance tasks.
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Where Are All the Aircraft Being Stored? British Airways ware sending half of its Airbus A380 fleet to Châteauroux, an aircraft graveyard in France. Last week the airline ferried five 747s to a Spanish aircraft graveyard as their capacity is currently unneeded.
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Here there are some nice considerations. You can basically divide stored aircrafts in two main categories: short-term and long-term. From the link, for long-term: When discussing parked or stored aircraft, it is safe to assume one is referring to an aircraft that is no longer in operation and has been placed by the owner, airline or lessor into a manufacturer-approved storage regime to ...
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Aircraft: Number in storage globally: Airbus A220s: 33: Airbus A300s: 11: Airbus A310s: 8: Airbus A318s: 23: Airbus A319s: 338: Airbus A320s: 948: Airbus A320neos: 112: Airbus A321s: 325: Airbus A321neos: 58: Airbus A330s: 467: Airbus A330neos: 18: Airbus A340s: 117: Airbus A350s: 66: Airbus A380s: 84
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Pinal Airpark is the largest commercial aircraft storage facility in the world, currently holding increased numbers of aircraft in response to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic
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** PLEASE NOTE – I am only able to update this list if people can contribute updates on the storage/scrapping situation at Kemble. Please email me! Latest Arrivals G-CIVB Boeing 747-400 (8 October 2020) CS-TTV Airbus A319 (9 October 2020) LY-NVZ Airbus A320 (4 November 2020) OH-LVA Airbus A319 (1 December 2020) CS-TTE Airbus A319 (4 December ...
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Aircraft storage facilities typically charge a base rate simply for parking a plane. The biggest expense is the cost of the aircraft services to keep the plane maintained and ready to return to operation. The amount and type of maintenance that must be done to an idle plane depends on how soon the airline hopes to return the aircraft to operation
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"Our aircraft storage scheme is designed to allow airlines the greatest flexibility possible for retrieving a single aircraft when it's needed in operation or for maintenance," says Meincke.
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Large Boeing, Airbus, Lockheed, and McDonnell-Douglas aircraft of major airlines are stored at Mojave. Some aircraft reach the end of their useful lifetime and are scrapped at the Mojave aircraft boneyard, while others are refurbished and returned to active service. The Mojave Air & Space Port
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Due to the unprecedented number of aircraft stored, issues are likely to arise. Airlines may see an increase in mechanical issues that could have been foreseen earlier. Especially for aircraft leasing companies this is a challenge because having a full picture of the status of the aircraft, so it can be reliably passed on the next lessee, is a time-consuming procedure.
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Where are airlines storing these aircraft? The airline industry is in uncharted territory with so many airlines seeking a place for so many stored aircraft. As a result, both airlines and airports are getting creative. A number of major airports, including Hartsfield Jackson in Atlanta and Paris Charles de Gaulle, are closing runways to store aircraft. Meanwhile, other airlines are using closed airports to store aircraft.
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