AirEMS From United States, joined May 2004, 684 posts, RR: 3 Posted (4 years 7 months 4 days 10 hours ago) and read 540 times:
Now I could be about to ask a really stupid question now I know that Lockheed got out of the Commerical Airline biz after the L-1011 but are they still a free standing company?? or did they merge i.e. Northrop Grumman or were they bought out buy Boeing?? anyhelp would be nice
Vorticity From United States, joined May 2004, 337 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (4 years 7 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 489 times:
To elaborate, Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged in 1995. Lockheed is a company employing over 125,000 people, posted a roughly 500 million dollar profit in 2002.
It includes the units:
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Lockheed Martin Electronic Systems
Lockheed Martin Information & Technology Services
Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & solutions
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.
Their sales over over 60% US Department of Defense, with about 4% to commercial customers, non of which are airplanes anymore
Production ceased in 1983, with the last delivered in 1985. I'm not sure the status of how many are left flying, but I believe total number built was around 300.
FlagshipAZ From United States, joined Jan 2001, 3408 posts, RR: 11 Reply 5, posted (4 years 7 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 480 times:
Lockheed built exactly 250 Tristars...200 standard-length models & 50 of the shorten 500 series. Most L-1011s are now out of service, but the last 2 Tristars assembled (500s) are still flying with the Royal Saudi Flight. Regards.
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AirEMS From United States, joined May 2004, 684 posts, RR: 3 Reply 7, posted (4 years 7 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 471 times:
Thanks for the help everyone yet again my youth has left me out of flying some really sweet aircraft i.e. L-1011 / DC-10 / MD-11/ DC-8 / 707 etc oh well
DeltaMD11 From United States, joined Dec 2002, 1629 posts, RR: 31 Reply 9, posted (4 years 7 months 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 454 times:
Lockheed Martin is currently the United States' largest defense contractor. Huge corporation and they have their hands in just about everything you can think of.
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Leelaw From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (4 years 7 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 357 times:
According to Airfleets.com 39 L1011's are still in service. ATA still uses six in the charter role and is the largest commercial operator. The RAF has nine left in service in the tanker(converted L1011-500's)/Cargo role, and in all likelihood, will be the last TriStar's flying very soon.
Cessna172RG From United States, joined Aug 2000, 633 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (4 years 7 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 342 times:
Does Royal Jordanian still fly theirs? I thought they still did, but I'm not up on aviation in Jordan so much...and I probably missed someone else post about it on another topic.
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