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CONCORDE G-BOAA

Aircraft number: 206

Hours flown: 22,768

Landings: 8,064

Supersonic flights: 6,842

Concorde - Queen of the Skies by Philip West

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HISTORY

1974 - Mar 3

Registered G-BOAA to the British Aircraft Corporation.

1975 - Nov 5

Maiden flight from Filton, Bristol, reaching Mach 2.

1976 - Jan 14

The first Concorde to be delivered to British Airways.

1976 - Jan 21

Used for the inaugural British Airways passenger service, a flight carrying many dignitories across the Alps to Bahrain.

1978 - Dec 10

Arrival at Dallas, Fort Worth Airport to begin proving flights to a number of south east and mid-American cities.

1979 - Jan 12

Re-registered as G-N94AA/N94AA to British Airways/Braniff Airways.

1980 - Jul 28

Re-registered G-BOAA to British Airways.

1988 - Feb 7

Concorde G-BOAA sets a new New York to London record of 2 hours 55 minutes and 15 seconds.

1988 - Apr

G-BOAA becomes the first Concorde to complete the important 12,000 flying hours maintenance check - it is declared that the airframe is in excellent order and should be clear to fly into the next century.

1990 - Jun 6

As part of the Battle of Britain 50th anniversary celebrations, G-BOAA flies in formation with a Spitfire over Dover.

1993 - Nov

G-BOAA receives a £1m upgrade to its rudder, part of an upgrade programme in response to rudder failures on several aircraft.

1996 - Jun 2

Fly past in formation with the Red Arrows over Heathrow to mark the airport’s 50th anniversary.

2000 - Aug 15

Grounded after the Paris crash but never received its upgrades before the decision was made to retire the Concorde fleet.

2004 - Apr

With its airframe dismantled, G-BOAA is taken by road and barge to The National Museum of Scotland at East Fortune where it is rebuilt for public display.

Final Resting Place

G-BOAA is kept on display at East Fortune Airfield, Edinburgh in Scotland. It is open for public viewing, for more information visit the web site at www.nms.ac.uk

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