[updated:LAST EDITED ON 21-10-02 AT 08:47 PM (GMT)]On my last visit to Heathrow (6th October 2002), when retiring for the day to go home, whilst driving around the perimeter road, I noticed a tail of a tristar.
The tail was blue with a white trim around the side of it.
I have only one clue as to what it may be, a tristar of Air Universal? (pic below) But im not 100% sure of this, as I have never heard of the airline, and Im not sure if an airline under this name operates flight into LHR?
Can anyone help to gain the info I require?
By: frankvw - 22nd October 2002 at 18:32
RE: Mystery Tristar
What I cannot understand is that the Tristar with that particular immatriculation didn’t fly for Delta (as mentionned above) ???
By: Ren Frew - 22nd October 2002 at 18:16
RE: Mystery Tristar
Didn’t Delta also donate one or more of it’s last Tristars to the Flying Hospital project ? It may have been just for spare parts mind you!
By: frankvw - 22nd October 2002 at 11:36
RE: Mystery Tristar
Funny… I searched the web for that immatriculation, and look what I found at
http://flytristar.tripod.com/page/fleet.html
AIR UNIVERSAL 9L-LDC L-1011-100 1231 out of service; parked at Sana
that company has another one: 9L-LDE
other one:
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26408/history.htm
Date of first flight: February 22, 1982. Date Registration Operator Notes
April 29, 1982 N7035T Trans World Airlines TWA “31035”
December 15, 1992 SE-DPR Air Sweden
February 1993 SE-DPR Stored in Tucson, Arizona
1995 N7035T New registration
1998 TF-ABT Air Atlanta Leased to Sabre Airways.
(L-1011-100, serial no 193B-1231)
By: A330Crazy - 22nd October 2002 at 11:20
RE: Mystery Tristar
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-10-02 AT 11:22 AM (GMT)]I have just searched on Airliners.net, for air universal, and it came up with a result of one picture. An Air universal tristar, on the 6th October, landing at… You guessed it LHR.
In the little attachment of writing underneath the picture, it says that this aircraft was operating a flight for Sudan Air, and that it is a ex delta bird!
I have been searching for it for a few days now on a.net but I have had no such luck up until now. Thats why I came here asking for your help.
Thanx anyway for your help guys. 🙂
By: greekdude1 - 22nd October 2002 at 05:02
RE: Mystery Tristar
Looks like a former Delta Airlines bird.
GD1
By: Saleem Hatoum - 22nd October 2002 at 02:04
RE: Mystery Tristar
This L-1011-500 TriStar belongs to the Govt. of Sierra Leone.
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October 21, 2002 at 8:35 pm
