San Diego, California.

This old KC-97 will never fly again, but if it's lucky, some of its parts will… someday.

During an airshow at the Akron-Fulton Airport in Akron, Ohio.

An old KC-97 fuel tanker from the 50s and 60s sits in the "boneyard" at Hawkins-Power Airfield in Greybull, Wyoming.

Over Balboa Park.

Waiting for its parts to be used in another active KC-97.

A cockpit image with another KC-97 dying on the vine through the window.

A single-engine private plane near Akron-Fulton airport.

Somewhere over America's "bread basket."

Somewhere over the High Plains of the United States.