Nearly 200 planes are being stored at the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, making the outpost more crowded at times than Los Angeles International Airport. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Aircraft mechanic Richard Robertson dismantles the cockpit of a Boeing 727-200. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Warning tags hang from cockpit instruments of a Boeing 727-200 that is being dismantled. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Aircraft mechanic Brian Parr works on dismantling a Boeing 727-200 in Victorville. Planes that are not expected to return to service are stripped of parts or chomped into pieces to be used as scrap. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Ron Pye of Pacific Aviation Group, which sells the parts removed from the airplanes, is dwarfed by jet engines stored at the Victorville facility. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
A plane taxis in front of a Lockheed 1011 jet that has brought out from storage in Victorville to be shown to a prospective buyer. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
