BA Tristar Question

I think the caledonian ones were listed under Caledonian, weren’t they?

I can say with all honesty, having lived near heathrow up until 2000, I never saw the BA TriStars after the early 90’s, so the info saying they left in around 1991 or there abouts is probably about right.

I think this is probably the definitive answer, regarding G-BLUS at least, http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=detailnosummary&fullregmark=BLUS

Quite where the other sites I’ve looked at showing 1999 have gotten that from is a mystery!

-Daz

Thanks for the input everyone. You see my problem now, lots of conflicting info on the ‘net, mostly caused I think by the fact that they ended up operating for Caledonian whilst still technically owned by BA.

The series 500s went to the RAF in the early 1980s.

I did find this, which suggests 1991..

October: The airline took delivery of its first three 141-seat Boeing 737-436 aircraft. By the end of March 1992, 13 of the aircraft would be in scheduled service with 14 more due for delivery by December 1993. The last of the operating Lockheed Tristar aircraft were withdrawn.

Sourced from..

http://www.britishairways.com/travel/history-1990-1999/public/en_us

Pics seem to suggest it went back to Air Lanka around 1988 as it was still with BA in 87…

http://www.airliners.net/photo/British-Airways/Lockheed-L-1011-385-3-TriStar/0462152/L/&sid=51b85e1407fb104044bb0d116596da2e

It was still with Air Lanka in 1999..

http://www.airliners.net/photo/AirLanka/Lockheed-L-1011-385-3-TriStar/1072775/L/&sid=51b85e1407fb104044bb0d116596da2e

After that it went to Air Transat.

Indeed it was, however, it was retired from Air Lanka in 1988 according to airlinerlist and airfleets have it as active with BA then, to be honest its all a bit confusing. Most of the sources i’ve checked appear to have mildly conflicting dates as to when BA last had TriStars, the 7/99 date is when airfleets show G-BLUS as last active with BA, my head is now spinning…

-Daz

Dazza, G-BLUS was leased by BA in the 80’s from Air Lanka according to a pic on airliners.net. After that it went back to Air Lanka and also operated for Air Transat.

The last one to leave the fleet was G-BLUS on 1/7/99

-Daz

I think they left in the early 90’s.
I don’t remember seeing them at LHR in 1995 which was my first visit to the T2 spotters deck (didn’t go there before then because I had a good view from my house but eventually wanted to see the planes up closer)

Well, from what it says here, it looks as though the last BA Tristar was retired in 1999. See link.

http://www.historicairlinegroup.com/