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In 1995, Concorde G-BOAF had it's nose damaged in a handling accident at Heathrow Airport. British Airways swapped this nose with that G-BBDG. As well as the nose and tail, other parts were removed, including the engines, landing gear and most of the hydraulics system. The original nose was later repaired at Brooklands and returned to G-BBDG. [3]
(203) was the Concorde lost in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 on 25 July 2000 in the small town of Gonesse, France near Le Bourget, located just outside Paris, killing 113 people. The remains of this aircraft are stored at a hangar at Le Bourget Airport. It is the only Concorde in the history of the design to be destroyed in a crash.
General pattern: HB-AAA to HB-ZZZ, with HB-1 to HB-9999 for Gliders and Motorgliders. The registration often denotes the aircraft type and maker. Some examples: HB-Axx two-engined aircraft from 5.7 to 15 tons, Aircraft over 15 tons due to shortage of Jxx. HB-Bxx balloons; HB-Cxx single-engined Cessnas under 5.7 tons
Brooklands was a 2.767-mile (4.453 km) motor racing circuit and aerodrome built near Weybridge in Surrey, England, United Kingdom.It opened in 1907 and was the world's first purpose-built 'banked' motor racing circuit [n 1] as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918, producing military aircraft such as the Wellington ...
The official handover ceremony of British Airways' first Concorde occurred on 15 January 1976 at Heathrow Airport. Air France Concorde (F-BTSC) at Charles de Gaulle Airport on 25 July 1975, exactly 25 years before the accident in 2000 British Airways Concorde in Singapore Airlines livery at Heathrow Airport in 1979 Air France Concorde (F-BTSD) with a short-lived promotional Pepsi livery in ...
Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde: Air France Flight 4590: F-BVGG Airbus A300B4-203: Operation Entebbe: F-FHMY Farman F.63 Goliath: 1930 Air Union Farman Goliath crash: F-GBEC Airbus A300B2-1C: Air France Flight 8969: F-GEAD Farman F.60: First mid-air collision of airliners: F-GFKC Airbus A320-111: Air France Flight 296: F-GGED Airbus A320-111: Air ...
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Type Identity Markings Notes Bristol Britannia 312: XM497: 497 "Schedar" Former civil aircraft G-AOVF bought by the Museum in 1984 and painted to represent XM497 of Royal Air Force Air Support Command