Context: During Covid, many airlines mothballed their large passenger jets, including 747s, A330 and A380s, and stored them in facilities like these.
This sequence shows a small aircraft storage provider in Alice Springs dramatically expanding their storage area and inventory from a few passenger jets to full capacity, around 100 jets in just over a year, an inventory worth around $20 Billion.
By late 2023, most aircraft have been rotated back into service, leaving a handful of stored or abandoned jets remaining.
A closer look at the facility in 2026 shows evidence of some jets having been scrapped for parts, having never returned to the skies.