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.

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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.