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CONCORDE G-BOAB

Aircraft number: 208

Hours flown: 22,296

Landings: 7,810

Supersonic flights: 6,688

Concorde Farewell by Michael Rondot

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HISTORY

1974 - Apr 3

Registered G-BOAB to British Aircraft Corporation Ltd.

1976 - May 18

Maiden flight from Filton, Bristol.

1976 - Sep 30

Delivered to British Airways.

1979 - Jan 12

Re-registered G-N94AB/N94AB to British Airways/Braniff Airways.

1980 - Sep 17

Re-registered G-BOAB to British Airways.

1984 - Sep 11

Sets a distance record for an airliner with a 4,565 flight from Washington to Nice.

1984 - Nov 16

Flies the inaugural charter service from London to Seattle via New York.

1988 - Jul 1

David Beckam and other football stars fly from Nantes, France as G-BOAB brings home the 1998 England World Cup squad.

2000 - Aug 18

Final flight - JFK to LHR (BA002P) - this aircraft was not given the post Paris crash modifications in time and never returned to service. It was reassembled,
re-painted and put on outside display at Heathrow.

2004 - May 4

De-registered from service.

Final Resting Place

G-BOAB is currently on display at Heathrow on a taxiway alongside Runway 23. It is planned that she will eventually be used as a gate guardian for the new Terminal 5.

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