Right, some day all those DC-8s, 727s, F-8s, A-6s, CRJ-200s, Saabs, B-52s, F-14s and A-4s will fly back into service...lol

When deregulation came into force in the late 70s, the then major players didn't park their less profitable airplanes; they sold them to low-budget upstarts for quick cash, not realizing they were digging their own graves by doing so. The players today don't want to make the same mistake.

Probably not, but you never know. When the Vietnam Nam war cranked up, a whole lot of old airplanes, including recips, rose from the dead out there.

NASA is flying an RB-57 that came out of a museum a year or two ago.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNX6dieVcc

N927NA, formerly 63-13295, sat in the boneyard at Davis-Monthan for 41 years. I saw it at Ellington Field (Wings Over Houston Airshow) last month.






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And supposedly, another came from the museum at Warner-Robbins.

Of the 2 WB-57s they fly, two have been there a while. The third (as mentioned) came out of DM a few years ago.

UAL T-38 Phlyer,
I stand corrected. I was unaware of the W-R aircraft.

12 of the S-3s are for South Korea and I believe have more airframe life left than the Rhinos that are doing the CV tanking