But they’re county assets, and the county is selling them,” Big Horn County Airport manager Paul Thur told Wyoming’s Cowboy State Daily earlier this month. In 2021, the plane carcasses’ original owner suddenly stopped paying the county airport to store the plane the husks of Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcars, Martin 4-0-4s, and Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters. Big Horn County subsequently filed a $543,600 storage lien against the property, resulting in a countersuit from the former tenant. While the majority of auction lots have been long discontinued, the C-130 Hercules is still in production today as the longest in-service military aircraft. Meanwhile, at least a few more dismantled planes owned by other renters will remain around the Big Horn County airport for the foreseeable future.