Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, USA - 27/01/2009

Upon arrival in the States, the provisional plan had been to spend this day at Tucson IAP, however, having spoken to Jason Hyatt Mesa-Gateway, we were informed that Tuesdays and Thursdays were the main arrival days for AMARG, so we elected to switch the two over. As it turned out this worked out perfectly as the runways at each respective base were 'wrong' on the days we had planned to be at them.

The morning had been spent doing AMARG & Marana-Pinal Air Park overflights, as well as spending some time at Avra Valley from where we'd flown.

We arrived just after lunch at DM and had a really good afternoon with an excellent mix of types, all in glorious conditions.

Undoubted highlights were the AZ ANG Apache, the bare metal Herc, and the VFA-83 F/A-18C, plus plenty of Operation Snowbird and based A-10 activity.

If only we could bottle those conditions and take them with us!

Once again, as the day drew to a close the sun disappeared behind a big bank of cloud, so as with the previous day we elected to finish off with a tour of some of the Tucson Scrapyards.