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The Last Airworthy Lockheed TriStar Airliner Spends Its Days Launching Rockets to Orbit

In the 21st century, spotting a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in the sky is like spotting a dodo right before the species went kaput. In 2023, there's only one TriStar left in service. Don't think it's with ...
Aviation Week

Riding Along For An L-1011 Air Launch Flight Demonstration

With the ventral fairing barely visible under the forward fuselage, Northrop Grumman’s Stargazer performed a low fly-past before departing Mojave. Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images Aviation Week was ...
Reuters

Fact Check: Underwater photograph of plane shows a diving site, not MH370 wreckage

But according to Aqaba’s tourism website, the plane is a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar which had been out-of-use and parked at a nearby airport, so it was intentionally sunk to create a “stop for diving ...
Aviation Week

Northrop Grumman Targets L-1011 Hypersonic Test Role

Almost 28 years after pioneering the use of nonmilitary air launch for commercial spacecraft with the Pegasus rocket, Northrop Grumman’s one-of-a-kind Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is on the verge of a new ...
Flightglobal

Flying Hospital ponders L-1011

The Flying Hospital organisation is considering acquiring a second flyable Lockheed L-1011 TriStar to operate as a medical evacuation aircraft for the US Department of Defense. Although no firm ...