BAS Part Sales Featured in Condé Nast Traveller ME: Clinton McJenkin on Aircraft Graveyards
Posted by Clinton McJenkin on Sep 8th 2025
For most people, the sight of a retired aircraft is rare, this is a conversation we have all the time around the BAS hangar. But out in the desert, whole fleets line up in silence, waiting for their final fate. Some are stored, some are dismantled, and some are slowly reclaimed by the elements. While this is not what we do here at BAS, it is the sort of mental image that comes to mind when you think of an “airplane graveyard”.
For most people, the sight of a retired aircraft is rare; this is a conversation we have all the time around the BAS hangar. But out in the desert, whole fleets line up in silence, waiting for their final fate. Some are stored, some are dismantled, and some are slowly reclaimed by the elements. While this is not what we do here at BAS, it is the sort of mental image that comes to mind when you think of an “airplane graveyard”.
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I was fortunate to be interviewed for a recent feature in Condé Nast Traveller Middle East Inside the eerie aircraft graveyards where planes go to die, by Scott Campbell.
The piece does a great job of capturing both the surreal beauty and the practical purpose of these graveyards.
Scott Articulated it Perfectly
As Scott writes: “From above, they look like enormous airplane parking lots, their fuselages gleaming in the sun. But these graveyards are also hubs of recycling and rebirth, where aviation’s past meets its future.”
For those of us who work in the industry, these yards aren’t just eerie, they’re essential. Every salvaged component has the potential to give another plane years of safe flying. That’s the side of aviation we get to share every day at BAS Part Sales.
He Really Hit the Nail on the Head...
Another line that struck me from the article was: “The graveyards are strange, in-between places: part museum, part scrapyard, part marketplace for the global aviation industry.”
That description couldn’t be more accurate. In fact, it’s exactly what inspires us to document these aircraft in our blog and videos and make a lifeline available for aircraft that might otherwise be grounded permanently.
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You can read the full story here: Inside the eerie aircraft graveyards where planes go to die.
A big thank-you to Condé Nast Traveller ME and Scott Campbell for inviting me to share a bit of insight into this unusual corner of aviation.
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