Tristar's Currently flying

[Mateo]

The last paper I ever wrote at university was a study of why Mirabel failed, which involved a visit to the airport (March '03). I have Transat's C-GATH in my notes for the day, which was before I actively logged registrations.

RAF Tristar ZD953 showed up at IAD on Sunday afternoon, and promptly occupied a place on my "Top 10 frames in 2006" list.

And, tying lots of threads together, Globejet's and Euroatlantic's L-1011s came to Montreal-Trudeau (formerly Dorval, the change was around 2004) this summer as part of the Lebanon evacuation.

[Nonstop2AUH]

Good place to spot the ATA TriStars is apparently Bangor, ME. Most troop flights transit BGR on their way to Kuwait (via Europe) or on their way back from the Middle East to whatever field is nearest the base of the unit onboard. The routings seem to be "US base-BGR-base in Germany-KWI" or same in reverse. Omni Air DC-10s and World MD-11s can apparently also be spotted up there doing same thing.

[n717bh]

Interesting news on the Saudia L-1011's, i was unaware they have not been shot in awhile.I guess we either enlist or hope ATA does a equipment swap sometime.She usually pops in during the week in BWI if your in the area.

[Nonstop2AUH]

Nice pic, good to see a TriStar that still flies the stars and stripes. Was curious about the background of this one, so looked it up, 162AT is a 500 (long range) model built in 1982 for Royal Jordanian which iirc operated the type into the late '90s when they got A340s. Apparently there was a VIP Tristar in RJ colors that King Hussain used to fly himself but not sure what happened to it. L-1011 sold particularly well in the Middle East/South Asia, in addition to RJ of course Saudi, Gulf Air, and Air Lanka operated them. GAMCO in Abu Dhabi did heavy maint. for Tristars from around the world, including BWIA that I once saw there myself.