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AF flew its last commercial flight on 30 May 2003 [156] [157] with BA retiring its Concorde fleet on 24 October 2003. [3] ... Before Concorde's flight trials ...
On 12 June 2003, AF honoured that agreement, donating Concorde F-BVFA (serial 205) to the museum upon the completion of its last flight. This aircraft was the first AF Concorde to open service to Rio de Janeiro, Washington, D.C., and New York and had flown 17,824 hours.
This Concorde was once used as a source of spares, before being restored using parts from Air France's F-BVFD, and has flown 16,239 hours. [25] G-BOAF : (216) first flew on 20 April 1979 from Filton and was the last Concorde to be built. [26] It made Concorde's final flight on Wednesday 26 November 2003.
On November 26, 2003, supersonic airplane Concorde made its last flight, returning to the airfield near Bristol, in southwest England, where it’s remained since.
The supersonic aircraft suffered a catastrophic crash in Paris on 25 July 2000
The fuel burn for Concorde was four times more than today’s British Airways Airbus A350, which carries three times as many passengers. Twenty-first-century travellers are far more comfortable.
The last passenger flight of the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA. Concorde's last commercial flight was in October 2003, with a November 26, 2003 ferry flight being its last flight. Following the termination of flying by Concorde, there have been no SSTs in commercial service.
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