This is not a landfill it's a junkyard, there is a difference. These planes are still valuable in several ways. They can be salvaged for parts to update operati

This is not a landfill it's a junkyard, there is a difference. These planes are still valuable in several ways. They can be salvaged for parts to update operating planes. And some of them can be returned to service, though obsolete by modern standards. Unlike automobiles there aren't millions of any of these planes, only hundreds or thousands. It doesn't take up that much space to keep a bunch of obsolete planes laying around in the desert, and they may prove valuable in the future. Reduce, reuse, recycle, and all that.