A TROVE of rusting airplanes has permanently returned to Earth in a grassy, weed-filled field.
In a YouTube video, an explorer who searches abandoned suburban areas found a collection of decaying airplanes on the side of a highway.
Several decades-old, single-engine planes took to the skies to cart around flying enthusiasts.
Now, the birds are decayed in a Delaware field overtaken by tall grass next to a highway and a rural home.
YouTuber Jay Applegate (@journey_with_jay) filmed the abandoned lot and posted it on the social video site.
“Mother Nature has taken that guy over,” Applegate said while filming a Cessna with tree branches snaking through its passenger windows.
The grounds used to be a more active airport, the YouTuber said.
Small airplanes carrying two to four people at a time used to fly into the grass field.
The planes have a long history in American tactical warfare.
In the 1940s, Cessna produced several planes for the American and Canadian armies.
The small planes were used in combat during both nations’ military operations in World War II.
However, according to the YouTuber, the field attempts to convert the parts back into the same subterranean gases that the jets burned in the air.
“It’s a pity seeing all those little planes go to waste,” one commenter said.
“That’s a load of scrap metal,” another person added.
The land is now a holding place for the birds to showcase their former glory.
Some YouTube commenters said the parts are sold for scraps.
A nearby field holds dozens of detached wings – another field house has engine parts and remnants of former airplane exoskeletons.
However, another commenter said the nearby grass field is still used as an active airport.
“Believe it or not, this airport is not abandoned,” one person said.
“There are two runways with one being closed, the one with the house. Yes, you can still land there.”
The plane graveyard is one of several areas Applegate has visited with decaying transportation finds.
Applegate also shares abandoned finds on his Instagram (@journey_with_jay).
Source: The Sun
