{"id":268900,"date":"2025-08-19T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/last-commercial-lockheed-aircraft-airworthy\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:00:13","slug":"the-last-commercial-lockheed-aircraft-in-america-still-airworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=268900","title":{"rendered":"The Last Commercial Lockheed Aircraft In America Still Airworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed was once one of the major commercial and military transport aircraft manufacturers. Perhaps the most iconic commercial aircraft it made was the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525613\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-l-1011\/\"  >Lockheed L-1011 TriStar<\/a><\/span>. While the aircraft was a financial disappointment for Lockheed, it was one of the great aircraft of the era. It is a reminder of a time before the world was dominated by the current Boeing\/Airbus duopoly. Other airlines either abandoned the market or were absorbed by Boeing and Airbus, and today, only Boeing and Airbus make widebody airliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final airworthy Lockheed TriStar serves Northrop Grumman as a flying mothership launching rockets into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1624,17802,915],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-lockheed","category-lockheed-l-1011-tristar","category-northrop-grumman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268902,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268900\/revisions\/268902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}