sheeting over the windows, nose, engine, and/or propellers, to protect the plane and its valuable components from the elements. The only nonmilitary plane at the Boneyard in the summer of 2015 was a commercial Boeing 707 that was acquired in order to strip its engines and put them into a KC-135. In general, there are about twice as many engines as aircraft on site, since the engines wear down faster than the planes themselves. That way, an engine is sitting waiting while another is in use, which helps maintain the engines over time.13
Unlike repairers, restorers will rely on some shared, yet arbitrary, understanding of what counts as “continuity” with a past, idealized state. This decision is arbitrary because making an object look like it did five minutes or five weeks ago might accurately depict a past state, and yet not count as “restoration.” Evidence of repair is seeing something work as it once did; evidence of restoration would be seeing something that seems like it once did. If this is about iconicity—about relations of resemblance between an ideal state and a current state—this resemblance is mediated by a specific, shared idea of what a restored plane is supposed to look like. That depends on conventions maintained by airplane museums and held by visitors. The important point is that if you only want a plane to seem like it did when it flew, you interpret its qualities differently and end up with a potentially very different object—the simulation of a plane rather than an actual flying machine. Items at the Pima are cleaned up, painted, and, when possible, labeled with the markings they had when they were still in use.
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