Lockheed L-1011 Tristar

I'm thinking the amount of lakes etc usable for scooping in Canada would still make the prop types favourable, unless they look at the Beriev 200.

MikeO;143425 wrote:

Might make good fire bombers?

Or going to a civilian AAR contractor like Omega?

Access to the Tristars at Brunty is off limits due to them being 'live' so here's the next best thing -


(taken on the 19/4/14 & sent to me by NBU)

Taken by me at Brunty today -

Nice shot Steve

The latest situation regarding the Tristars at Bruntingthorpe is that they are currently swapping engines around & the engines with the least hours will be given to the Tristars that are to be flown to the USA. So the outcome will be, one will remain at Bruntingthorpe for preservation, four will be flown to the USA & the other will be scrapped apparently.

Steve

I was informed today that apparently the sale of the remaining Tristars at Brunty to America may have fell through & they may not be moving there after all now.

Hi,
Nice shots in posts 43 and 45 Stevie, thanks for posting.
Would youself or anyone else know the present situation with the TriStars?. I would like to get to the May event at Bruntingthorpe, I am hoping some are still there to photograph, are they on some sort a of care and maintenance in the meantime?.
Best regards, Gerry.

Gerry wrote:

Hi,
Nice shots in posts 43 and 45 Stevie, thanks for posting.
Would youself or anyone else know the present situation with the TriStars?. I would like to get to the May event at Bruntingthorpe, I am hoping some are still there to photograph, are they on some sort a of care and maintenance in the meantime?.
Best regards, Gerry.

Thanks Gerry,

I've asked a couple of people as I've been wondering myself & nobody seems to know what's going on with them at present since the deal to fly them off to America apparently fell through. I'm pretty sure that they are on Care & Maintenance in case they are to fly again.

As for photographing them on the open day in May, they are parked on a part of the airfield which is out of bounds to the public however they did lay on some open top busses last year for the photographers so you could still get over to photograph them and the other aircraft in the 'graveyard' part of the site but you where not allowed on foot. They also towed one of them into the the public area as well. Hopefully providing they are all still at Brunty in May they may do the same again.

I really do hope the Museum will still be keeping one of them as a 'runner'.

Here's a shot taken at Brunty in 1996 -

(Photo taken by Nigel Bailey-Underwood)

Steve