In just over a week, he said he and his team ferried 23 Spirit planes from airports around the country to the Arizona desert.

The company’s collapse started the clock on a mission to collect dozens of planes and deposit them in Arizona boneyards.

"Arizona is the place where airplanes go to, well, sometimes die," said Bob Allen, Nomadic Aviation Group co-founder.

Side view of three Spirit Airlines aircraft parked close to each other soon after the company went out of business - Joe ...

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