Portuguese TriStar fleet status 08/08

The Airworthiness Certificate of CS-TEB was finally issued this month and the aircraft recently operated a flight for Aer Lingus between DUB and JFK. CS-TEB was stored in LIS since its arrival from AUH, in April of this year.

euroAtlantic CS-TEB - active
euroAtlantic CS-TMX - scrapped
Luzair CS-TMP - active
Luzair CS-TMR - stored at Victorville

CS-TEB active again

After long term storage at Abu Dhabi due to waiting for some important structural repairs, CS-TEB finally landed today at Lisbon!

A short and successful test-flight was accomplished previously last 12th of April, in Abu Dhabi.

Here is a photo of this beauty after landing in Lisbon under the pouring rain. Welcome home again CS-TEB!

CS-TMX the end has come

Last 10th of April CS-TMX msn 1206 was scrapped for good! After being cannibalized of all its reusable parts, the cutting machines left this once great machine in thousands of pieces.

The last owner of the aircraft was euroAtlantic airways and some of the parts were saved to keep their L-1011 CS-TEB flying.

The last flight of CS-TMX was done in June of 2006 and since then it was stored at LIS airport.

Photos of scrapping sent by Manuel Morais:

Fleet Updates

Fleet status:

• CS-TMX, msn 193H-1206, euroAtlantic airways

Still waiting for the axe in front of TAP's Hangar5 (photos taken on 1st February 2008)

• OD-ZEE, msn 293B-1239, Globejet Airlines

Spotted still parked at VVI (Santa Cruz Bolivia) on January 8, 2008

Factfile updated

• CS-TEB, msn 293B-1240, euroAtlantic airways

Still stored at Abu Dhabi. To return soon.

• CS-TMR, msn 293B-1241, Luzair

Finishing C-check works at Victorville

• TL-ADW, msn 293B-1242, Privilege Jet

Seen at Jeddah during last January, doing Hajj flights; new name "Farah"

Suffered a tire burst during take-off: Africa-Bound Pilgrim Plane Aborts Takeoff

Factfile updated, including a photo taken on 6th January 2008

• XT-BRK, msn 293B-1243, Kallat Elsaker

Seen at Jeddah during last January, doing Hajj flights; new name "Mabruk"

Factfile updated, including a photo taken on 1st January 2008

• CS-TMP, msn 193H-1248, Luzair

Leased to Meridian Airlines (Nigeria) from 24th November until 14th December 2007

Operated Hajj flights between cities of Abuja, Minna, Kaduna and Kano (in Nigeria) and Jeddah

In December also operated some flights for TAAG and Blue Panorama

Leased again to Meridian Airlines from 1st January until 22th January 2008 for Hajj outbound phase

Factfile updated. The number of flying hours and cycles of this aircraft was also updated

Aircraft is now at Amman for maintenance

List of all L-1011s spotted by me at Jeddah during Hajj:

• CS-TMP, Luzair
• 9G-BSM, Air Charter Express
• TL-ADW, Privilege Jet
• XT-BRK, Kallat Elsaker
• N194AT, Med-View

Boeing 707 record was broken: 25 years of L-1011 in Portugal!

15th January 1983

CS-TEA

25 years ago, arrived in Lisbon the first L-1011-500 for TAP Air Portugal. Since then, the type has been continuously in operation in Portugal. Until today 8 L-1011s were registered in Portugal and 7 of them belonged to TAP. TAP phased-out the type in 1997, but some charter airlines kept the TriStar flying in Portugal until today. These days, only CS-TMP from Luzair is flying (old CS-TEG at TAP) but the fleet will hopefully grow up again with the return in service of CS-TMR and CS-TEB.

With 25 years of operation in Portugal, the TriStar is now the longest time jetliner in this country after the Boeing 727 which operated from 1967 until 1993 (TAP + Air Columbus).

Kallat Elsaker's L-1011 fleet with new registrations

OD-MIR (msn 1246) and OD-JOE (msn 1243) recently bought from Globejet Airlines are now respectively XT-RAD and XT-BRK.

See photo at Airliners.net.

Their factfiles were already updated.

MSN 293B-1242 changes registration number

TriStar 500 YK-DLC of Privilege Jet Airlines has now become TL-ADW. Privilege Jet's website is active again although under construction.

MSN 293B-1242 factfile will be updated as soon as possible.

Globe Jet sells their L-1011 fleet

Kallat Elsaker Air, a libyan operator, has bought OD-MIR (msn 1246) and OD-JOE (msn 1243) from Globe Jet Airlines.

The most beautiful plane in the world

Did you know that...

1. Pan Am was the first airline to operate the TriStar 500 with extended wingtips/active ailerons, in 1980?
2. The first TriStar 500 models delivered to British Airways in 1979 did not originally have the wingtip extensions? They were retrofitted later.

3. The extended wingtips/ active ailerons were first installed and tested in the L-1011 prototype (N1011)?

N1011 - standard lenght TriStar - with active ailerons 

You can read more about active ailerons/active control system here.