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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star
    Latest Model:TriStar K.1
    Last Military Serial:ZD951 RAF
    Construction Number:1165
    Last Civil Registration:N309CS
    Compressed ID:Lockheed TriStar K.1 sn ZD951 RAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing

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    Dates

    Event

    1979

    Constructed as a L-1011-500.

    From 15 May 1979 to 1983

    To British Airways with new c/r G-BFCD.
    Operated with markings: The Astral Rose

    1981


    Photographer: PixelPete
    Notes: 1981 photo at London Gatwick whilst operated by British Airways - became ZD951 with the Royal Air Force

    From March 1983 to 25 March 2014

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD951.

    8 April 1983

    Transferred to Ministry of Defence.

    Converted to a TriStar K.1.

    8 May 1986

    Transferred to 216 Squadron, RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire.

    18 July 1987


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: TriStar K.1, callsign Embassy 823, of 216 Squadron on display at the 1987 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    13 October 1988


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At the 1988 RAAF Richmond Bi-Centennial Airshow

    July 1991


    Photographer: Unknown

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: TriStar K.1, callsign Ascot 823, of 216 Squadron at the 1991 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    21 July 2013


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 2013 photo at Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford UK - of a Royal Air Force Lockheed Tristar

    25 March 2014

    Based at Great Barrington Airport, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
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    12 May 2014

    To CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing with new c/r N309CS.

    25 May 2014


    Photographer: Andy Chetwyn
    Notes: Built for British Airways in 1979 as G-BFCD and operated by the RAF between 1983 and 2014, she is now stored and is listed as for sale with CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing Inc of California as N309CS. Seen from the tour bus at the Cold War Jets open day in May 2014.
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