Concorde | |
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A British Airways Concorde at Heathrow airport in London | |
Role | Supersonic airliner |
Manufacturer | BAC (now BAE Systems) Sud-Aviation, Aérospatiale (now EADS) |
First flight | 2 March 1969 |
Introduction | 21 January 1976 |
Retired | 26 November 2003 |
Status | Retired from service |
Primary users | British Airways Air France |
Number built | 20 (including 6 non-airline aircraft) |
Program cost | £1.3 billion |
Unit cost | £23 million in 1977 |
Concorde was a passenger airplane that flew faster than the speed of sound. It was made by the French company Aérospatiale and the British company British Aircraft Corporation. Concorde carried passengers from 1976 to 2003. Twenty aircraft were built.
Concorde flew across the Atlantic Ocean in a little less than 3.5 hours. Other airplanes take about eight hours.