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F-BVFF

CONCORDE F-BVFB

Aircraft number: 207

Hours flown: 14,771

Landings: 5,473

Supersonic flights: 4,791

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HISTORY

 

Registered F-BVFB to Air France.

1976 - Mar 6

Maiden flight from Toulouse.

1976 - Apr 8

Delivered to Air France.

1979 - Jan 12

Re-registered as N94FB to Air France/Braniff Airways.

1980 - Jun 1

Re-registered as F-BVFB to Air France.

1990 - Jun

Aircraft put into storage due to overall low utilisation of the Air France fleet. This aircraft was chosen because it was due for a major maintenance overhaul anyway, required at 12,000 flying hours.

1997 - May

Aircraft put back into service in order that F-BVFC could undergo its own 12,000 hour maintenance.

2001 - Jan 26

F-BVFB is flown to Istres, France where it is subjected to a number of tests by the team investigating the Paris Concorde crash of July 2000.

2001 - Aug 24

F-BVFB is the first Air France Concorde to take to the air having been subject to the post Paris crash modification programme.

2001 - Oct 22

An assessment flight to New York is the first Air France flight to America since the Paris crash.

2003 - May 31

Final passenger flight; AF4332 a special charter flying from, and returning to Paris Charles de Gaulle.

2003 - Jun 24

Final flight; AF4406 from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Baden Baden in Germany where it was put on display at the Sinsheim Auto and Technik Museum.

Final Resting Place

F-BVFB is on display at the Sinsheim Auto and Technik Museum in Germany. It is open for public viewing, for more information visit the museum web site at www.technik-museum.de

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