Goodbye ZD949 L-1011 Tristar

Indeed, I drove past about half an hour ago and there is a big empty space where two of them once stood.

Rob

The other one at Cambridge now seems to have gone too

Does anyone know which company is scrapping the aircraft at Cambridge?

Hardly airworthy, it has been parked for several years, robbed for spares, and had been modified to a configuration that was never approved for service.

That video is a bit like witnessing a murder.

We can’t save them all of course, but it just seems odd and brutal to do that to an airworthy aeroplane……………:(

949 was the one fitted with the glass cockpit.
ZE706 the sole C2A should be next for the scrap pile.

Is that the one used for the glass cockpit fiasco?

Indeed 949 is now leaving Cambridge by the truck load.