What is Davis-Monthan?
Davis-Monthan has been an active air base since the 1920’s, it is situated in a broad valley next to the city of Tucson, Arizona, in the South Western United States. The valley is semi arid, meaning it gets very little rain. Some areas are technically desert, getting less than 10″ (250mm) of rain a year. The surface of the valley consists of a well consolidated grit. It is a tough surface, one that has great load bearing strength. With the low rainfall and naturally strong surface the location made an ideal storage facility for aircraft that were considered surplus to current requirements. The base lies just to the south of Tucson city limits, the AMARC facility off to the East. Various roads surround the airbase, but the most active is Kolb Road, that becomes Valencia and runs through Tucson, turns south through AMARC (passing through the middle of the base) and heads south to the Pima Air and Space Museum (PASM), then on to the Tucson Airport. There are a variety of dirt roads around
