Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
MODEL BY:
Eastern Airlines
Model Scale:
1/200
MODEL ADDED:
N/A
historical significance
First Albuquerque Visit: 1975
Additional Information:
The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is a medium-to-long-range, wide-body trijet airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation. It was the third wide-body airliner to enter commercial operations, after the Boeing 747 and the McDonnell Douglas DC-10. The airliner has a seating capacity of up to 400 passengers and a range of over 4,600 miles. Its trijet configuration has three Rolls-Royce RB211 engines with one engine under each wing, along with a third engine center-mounted with an S-duct air inlet embedded in the tail and the upper fuselage. The aircraft has an auto-land capability, an automated descent control system, and available lower deck galley and lounge facilities.
Eastern Airlines was a major United States legacy air carrier that existed from 1926 through 1991 and was based in Miami, Florida. The carrier had a massive route structure throughout the eastern U.S. as well as into Central and South America. Eastern began service to Albuquerque on November 1, 1979 and was the second major carrier to come to the city after the airline deregulation act was passed one year earlier. Initially two daily flights to their main hub in Atlanta were operated, one nonstop and the other with a stop at Dallas/Fort Worth, using Boeing 727’s. Eastern struggled financially through the latter half of the 1980’s and all service from Albuquerque ended on August 31, 1988. Eastern, once the second busiest airline in the world, shut down in 1991.
In the summer of 1974, prior to serving Albuquerque, Eastern performed an aircraft swap with TWA in which TWA operated an Eastern Airlines wide-body L-1011 during their busier summer months and Eastern operated a TWA L-1011 during their busier winter season. The Eastern L-1011 flew through Albuquerque several times as a TWA flight to Chicago. On August 22, 1980, an Eastern Airlines L-1011 N-320 made an emergency landing at the Albuquerque Sunport. Passengers were eventually loaded onto a Douglas DC-10 to complete the trip to Los Angeles.
GALLERY:
SEARCH OUR DATABASE: