Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStar Delta Air Lines
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar-500 (L-1011-385-3) - Delta Air Lines (USA) - N765DL (MSN 193H-1206) - Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport (FRA) - 1990s.
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar-500 (L-1011-385-3) - Delta Air Lines (USA) - N765DL (MSN 193H-1206) - Frankfurt Rhein/Main Airport (FRA) - 1990s.
Delta Air Lines was the first U.S. airline to order and operate the Lockheed L-1011-500. The airline used the type on its transatlantic and Pacific services. Its first commercial TriStar 500 flight was on June 17, 1979, from Atlanta to Frankfurt, Germany.
Lockheed delivered TriStar 500 MSN 193H-1206 to Air Canada in September 1981 as C-GAGG. The aircraft was taken over by Delta Air Lines ten years later, in August 1991, as N765DA. It left the Delta fleet in April 2001. Later users of the aircraft were the Portuguese charter airlines YES Air Charter and White. The TriStar was withdrawn from use in 2006.
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