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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star
    Latest Model:L-1011-500 TriStar
    Last Military Serial:ZD953 RAF
    Construction Number:1174
    Last Civil Registration:N705CS
    Compressed ID:Lockheed L-1011-500 sn ZD953 RAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bruntingthorpe

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    Dates

    Event

    1980

    Constructed as a L-1011-500.

    2 May 1980

    To British Airways with new c/r G-BFCF.

    June 1981


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: 1981 photo at London Gatwick - became ZD953 with the Royal Air Force

    From 1983 to 19 March 2014

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD953.

    15 February 1983

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n ZD953.
    The delivery date is provided.

    By June 1988


    Photographer: Unknown

    18 June 1988


    Photographer: Unknown

    To Great Barrington Airport, Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire/Leics, England.
    View the Location Dossier

    To unknown owner with c/r N705CS.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: TriStar KC.1, callsign Tattoo 18, of 216 Squadron at RAF Brize Norton on display at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire.

    8 October 2002


    Photographer: Unknown

    19 March 2014

    Transferred to Bruntingthorpe.

    25 May 2014


    Photographer: Andy Chetwyn
    Notes: Built for British Airways in 1980 as G-BFCF and operated by the RAF between 1984 and 2014, she is now stored and is listed as for sale with CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing Inc of California as N705CS. Seen from the tour bus at the Cold War Jets open day in May 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N705CS.
    Credits
     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
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