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L-1011....Cargo Use?

ShannoninAMA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 2264 times:

Please dont flame me for this...just curious. Why were L-1011s never converted to freighters after most carriers quit using them for passengers? Most other threeholers (727,DC-10,MD-11)were picked up by cargo operators fairly quick. Is it just simply not efficient to use them for cargo use? or is there something im missing?

(A very very confused) Shannon Smile

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Warreng24 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 682 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2213 times:

Getting parts for the early model RB211's on the L-1011's is a problem.

That's one of the reasons that TZ cited when they retired their L10 fleet.

Also, there are some reports here on A.net from DL insiders that DL was having trouble getting spares from Lockheed as well.

So the bottom line is that there's a difficult time getting parts for the L10. Great bird though.

TrijetsRMissed From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 2097 posts, RR: 6
Reply 2, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 2166 times:

In addition to the lack of spare parts, the L-1011 variants all lacked in payload and range vs. the DC-10-30F. And of course now the MD-11 greatly surpasses both.

There's nothing quite like a tri-jet.

Maersk737 From Denmark, joined Feb 2004, 632 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2121 times:

Quoting TrijetsRMissed (Reply 2):
In addition to the lack of spare parts, the L-1011 variants all lacked in payload and range vs. the DC-10-30F. And of course now the MD-11 greatly surpasses both.

Conversion programs would be rather expensive, due to the few numbers of the aircraft sold.

Cheers

Peter

I'm not proud to be a Viking, just thankfull

GARUDAROD From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 1476 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2105 times:

There were L-1011's that were converted to freighters. The RAF still has several variants they use for
troop support. As stated the Tri-star has a limited payload as opposed to the DC10 or even DC8
and spares are very hard to come by.
The list of airlines that have operated a L1011F include:
Kalitta
Fine Air
Arrow Air
Tradewinds
and a few carriers from Africa that didnt convert them as regular freighters, whereby the added a
cargo door and strengtend the main deck floor, but rather removed the passenger seats and used
the plane that way.

Cargo doesn't whine, moan, or complain

A342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Reply 5, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 3 days 9 hours ago) and read 2059 times:

Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 4):
There were L-1011's that were converted to freighters. The RAF still has several variants they use for
troop support.

And 11 civil examples. More info can be found here: http://www.freightersonline.com/plane.aspx?a=24

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Exceptions confirm the rule.

FlagshipAZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3419 posts, RR: 15
Reply 6, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 2 days 23 hours ago) and read 1762 times:

There were 12 Tristars converted into freighters...6 Dash 1/100s & 6 Dash 200s. Only 2 are known to be still in service...line #12 (a dash 1) and line #212 (a dash 200). The rest having been parked and/or scrapped.
The website provided by A342 (reply 5) is good, but a bit incorrect.
Regards.

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Ben Franklin

A342 From Germany, joined Jul 2005, 4655 posts, RR: 4
Reply 7, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 2 days 22 hours ago) and read 1688 times:

Quoting FlagshipAZ (Reply 6):
There were 12 Tristars converted into freighters...6 Dash 1/100s & 6 Dash 200s. Only 2 are known to be still in service...line #12 (a dash 1) and line #212 (a dash 200). The rest having been parked and/or scrapped.

According to www-ch-aviation.ch , it's one -1F, one -100F and ten -200Fs. One -200F already scrapped, the rest stored, none in service anymore.

Exceptions confirm the rule.

FlagshipAZ From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 3419 posts, RR: 15
Reply 8, posted (5 years 10 months 1 week 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 1542 times:

Let me correct my previous post on the Tristar freighters. 12 converted, 10 parked & 2 scrapped, AFAIK. They are/were...

MSN 1012...Dash 1...ex-Eastern...parked
MSN 1131...Dash 100...ex-Gulf Air...parked
MSN 1133...Dash 100...ex-Gulf Air...parked
MSN 1138...Dash 100...ex-Gulf Air...parked
MSN 1152...Dash 1...ex-Eastern...scrapped
MSN 1158...Dash 1...ex-Eastern...parked
MSN 1178...Dash 200...ex-British Airways...scrapped
MSN 1182...Dash 200...ex-British Airways...parked
MSN 1193...Dash 200...ex-British Airways...parked
MSN 1198...Dash 200...ex-British Airways...parked
MSN 1211...Dash 200...ex-British Airways...parked
MSN 1212...Dash 200...ex-British Airways...parked

Regards.

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Ben Franklin

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