Concorde F-BTSD
Current registration - F-BTSD
Manufacturer’s Serial Number - 213
Production Variant Number - Type 1 Variant 101
Maiden Flight - 26th June 1978: Toulouse, France
Air France delivery - 18th September 1978 (as lease)
Registration history –
First Registered as F-WJAM to Aerospatiale
14th September 1978 aircraft re-registered as F-BTSD by Aerospatiale
18th September 1978 aircraft leased to Air France
12th January 1979 aircraft re-registered as N94SD by Air France / Braniff Airways
12th March 1979 aircraft re-registered as F-BTSD and returned to Aerospatiale
9th May 1980 aircraft leased to Air France
23rd October 1980 aircraft was purchased by Air France
Final Flight - June 14th 2003: AF380Y: Paris CDG- Paris Le Bourget
Hours Flown - 12,974 Hrs
Landings - 5,135
Supersonic Flights - 3,672
Current Location – Retired from service to Le Bourget Air and Space museum, Paris, France
Aircraft History –
F-BTSD holds the world records for fastest flights around the world in both directions:
1992: Oct 12th -to Oct 13th
Westbound RTW: 12-13 October 1992: 32 hours 49 minutes 03 seconds
Lisbon-Santo Domingo-Acapulco-Honolulu-Guam-Bangkok- Bahrain-Lisbon 15-16
1995: August 15th to August 16th
Eastbound RTW: 15-16 August 1995: 31 hours 27 minutes 49 seconds
New York/JFK-Toulouse-Dubai-Bangkok-Guam (Andersen AFB)- Honolulu-Acapulco-New York/JFK
(The Eastbound (1995) record is the current GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS official world record)
1996: August
F-BTSD was painted in a Special Pespi livery when Pepsi Cola undertook a major $500 million US re-branding project.
2001: April 17th
Flown to Istres, France for a series of tests on newly designed Michelin tyres as part of the post Paris crash modification programme.
