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.

TWAHistory.com

TWA (now absorbed by American Airlines) was one of the most important airlines in the world. It was also one of the main L-1011 operators.

If you are interested in airline history and memorabilia perhaps you will enjoy spending some minutes visiting this blog:

• TWAHistory.com: Website

This site was added to our Links' section.

Portuguese TriStar fleet status 11/07

euroAtlantic CS-TEB - stored at Abu Dhabi, waiting slot for further maintenance works
euroAtlantic CS-TMX - stored at Lisbon, to be scrapped soon
Luzair CS-TMP - active
Luzair CS-TMR- under maintenance at Victorville, finishing C-check works