Beautiful scheme, beautiful aircraft! Great memories for me from this trip before the awful hegemony of the B738/A320 became so dominant....

Taxying in to the international terminal. Obtained from LTU eight months previously.

VR-HHL was sold in Antigua and Barbuda as V2-LEN in 1996.

Subbing on a Thomas Cook flight, a welcome visitor to Glasgow as Tristars are rarely seen these days.

No prizes for guessing the previous owner of this aircraft!

RAF Tristars were rare visitors to Glasgow and this one certainly did not disappoint, making a low approach on landing and touching down a lot closer to this viewing spot here than normal. (Canon 40D 160mm)

Wearing the original 'Trinidad and Tobago Airways' titles. These were subsequently changed to 'We are the Carribean'.

Photo 1 of 2 (see here). This Tristar suffered a compressor stall in engine #1 during the take-off run for a Dutch Caribbean Airlines Amsterdam-Curaçao flight. The scene here is a few seconds later, showing the subsequent high-energy Rejected Take-Off (RTO) on rwy 24, causing significant damage to the landing gear. The aircraft was stored for repairs, but a second attempt three weeks later saw a repeat of the problem. It then remained stored at Schiphol for three years, until ferried to Lissabon on 20 July 2007, and on to Victorville, CA a month later for continued storage. In Jan 2014 it was acquired by TriStar History and Preservation Inc. and reregd to N91011, then sold to Orbital Sciences Corp. in April 2018.

Photo 2 of 2 (see here). This was the situation on runway 24 at Schiphol, 25 minutes after this former Air Portugal TriStar (ex CS-TEC, SE-DVF) executed a high-energy rejected Take-Off following an compressor stall in the #1 engine (see other photo). This RTO caused major damage to the landing gear, which kept it from vacating the runway. It blocked Schiphol's most-used runway for many hours. It would be three years before the aircraft would finally leave the airport. Following many years of continued storage at Vacaville, CA it was registered to TriStar History and Preservation Inc. as N91011 in Feb 2014, then to Orbital Sciences Corp. in April 2018. Apologies for the heat haze in this distant shot.

The dispatcher gives the 1-11 pilot the thumbs up!... before taxying he'll have to wait a few seconds though for the TriStar to go onto the gate.

Six Three-Holers for the price of one!