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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star
    Latest Model:TriStar KC.1
    Last Military Serial:ZD948 RAF
    Construction Number:1157
    Last Civil Registration:N304CS
    Compressed ID:Lockheed TriStar KC.1 sn ZD948 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing, Palos Verdes, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1978

    Constructed as a L-1011-385-3.

    To Lockheed with new c/r N48354 {2}.

    16 October 1978

    First flight.
    Assigned c/r.

    10 April 1980

    To British Airways, London with new c/r G-BFCA.
    Operated with markings: Princess Margaret Rose

    29 March 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD948.

    September 1983

    Transferred to 241 OCU, RAF Brize Norton.
    Operated with markings: CA

    10 September 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Abingdon Battle of Britain Day

    1985

    Converted to a TriStar C.1.
    By Marshalls of Cambridge.

    By 1 September 1988

    Converted to a TriStar KC.1.

    9 December 1988

    Transferred to 216 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.

    10 October 2009


    Photographer: Clive Hindmarch
    Notes: 2009 photo at Muscat, Oman

    20 February 2010


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: 2010 photo at Toronto Lester B Pearson Airport, Canada

    25 March 2014

    Last flight.
    Flown from RAF Brize Norton to Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire on retirement from RAF service.

    12 May 2014

    To CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing, Palos Verdes, CA with new c/r N304CS.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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