Old Planes Attract New Interest From Investors.

AIRPLANE maintenance; INVESTORS; MARANA Aerospace Solutions (Company); AIRPORT parking facilities; SCRAP metal sales & prices

MARANA, Ariz. -- On a sprawling piece of land here northwest of Tucson, 120 airliners bask in the Arizona sun like retirees -- which many of them are, living out their days after decades of ferrying passengers around the world. Whether the business, called Marana Aerospace Solutions, is the biggest aircraft maintenance and repair operation in the world, as new owners claim, depends on how one measures it: by maintenance capacity, airplane parking space or total square footage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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