Re-registered as N94SD to Air France/Braniff Airways.
1979 - Mar 12
Re-registered as F-BTSD to Aerospatiale.
1980 - May 9
Aircraft leased to Air France.
1980 - Oct 23
Aircraft purchased by Air France.
1992 - Oct 12/13
Sets the current record for a West bound round the world flight: 32 hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds. Route was Lisbon to Santo Domingo to Acapulco to Honolulu to Guam to Bangkok to Bahrain and back to Lisbon.
1995 - Aug 15/16
Sets the current record for an East bound round the world flight: 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds. Route was New York (JFK) to Toulouse to Dubai to Bangkok to Guam - to Honolulu to Acapulco and back to New York (JFK).
1996 - Aug
Painted in a special Pepsi livery as part of a major Pepsi Cola re-branding project.
2001 - Apr 17
Flown to Istres, France for a series of tests on newly designed Michelin tyres as part of the post Paris crash modification programme.
2003 - May 31
Final passenger flight: AF001 from New York JFK to Paris Charles de Gaulle.
2003 - Jun 14
Final flight: AF380Y from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Paris Le Bourget.
Final Resting Place
F-BTSD is kept on display at Le Bourget Air and Space Museum, in Paris. It is open for public viewing, for more information visit the museum web site at www.mae.org
