Concorde production list
The Concorde production list records all 20 Concorde airframes built by Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation between 1967 and 1979. The programme produced two prototypes, two pre-production aircraft, two production-standard development aircraft and 14 airliners delivered for commercial service to Air France and British Airways. Eighteen substantially complete airframes survive; one aircraft was scrapped and one was destroyed in an accident.[1][2]
Numbering and production system
Concorde was an Anglo-French programme, with final assembly shared between Toulouse in France and Filton in England. French-built production aircraft carried odd construction numbers and British-built production aircraft even numbers. The early development sequence used 001, 002, 101 and 102 before the production series began at 201.[3][1]
Construction number is the stable airframe identifier used in this list. It should not be confused with an airline fleet number or a registration. Several test aircraft used temporary registrations beginning F-WT, while the commercial aircraft were registered in the French F-BT/F-BV series or the British G-BO series.[3]
Sources differ in how they describe aircraft 201 and 202. They were built to production standard but retained for development and route-proving work rather than entering normal airline passenger service. This page therefore separates them from the 14 aircraft delivered for commercial operation.[2][4]
Development aircraft
| Construction no. | Category | Registration | Final assembly | First flight | Airline delivery | Current status or location |
| 001 | Prototype | F-WTSS | Toulouse | 2 March 1969 | Not delivered | Preserved at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France |
| 002 | Prototype | G-BSST | Filton | 9 April 1969 | Not delivered | Preserved at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton, United Kingdom |
| 101 | Pre-production | G-AXDN | Filton | 17 December 1971 | Not delivered | Preserved at Imperial War Museum Duxford, United Kingdom |
| 102 | Pre-production | F-WTSA | Toulouse | 10 January 1973 | Not delivered | Preserved at Musée Delta, Athis-Mons beside Paris Orly Airport, France |
| 201 | Production-standard development | F-WTSB | Toulouse | 6 December 1973 | Not delivered | Preserved at Musée Aeroscopia, Toulouse, France |
| 202 | Production-standard development | G-BBDG | Filton | 13 February 1974 | Not delivered | Preserved at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, United Kingdom |
The French prototype 001 made Concorde's first flight from Toulouse on 2 March 1969. The British prototype 002 followed from Filton on 9 April. The two pre-production aircraft incorporated changes towards the commercial configuration, while 201 and 202 supported certification, route proving, crew training and later development work.[5][6][4]
All six development airframes remain substantially complete. The French Ministry of Culture's 2025 count of 18 surviving Concordes includes these aircraft as well as 12 of the 14 airline airframes.[1]
Airline production aircraft
| Construction no. | Registration | Original operator | First flight | Present status or location |
| 203 | F-BTSC | Air France | 31 January 1975 | Destroyed in the Air France Flight 4590 accident at Gonesse, France, on 25 July 2000 |
| 204 | G-BOAC | British Airways | 27 February 1975 | Preserved at Manchester Airport Runway Visitor Park, United Kingdom |
| 205 | F-BVFA | Air France | 27 October 1975 | Preserved at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Virginia, United States |
| 206 | G-BOAA | British Airways | 5 November 1975 | Preserved at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, United Kingdom |
| 207 | F-BVFB | Air France | 6 March 1976 | Preserved at Technik Museum Sinsheim, Germany |
| 208 | G-BOAB | British Airways | 18 May 1976 | Stored at Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom |
| 209 | F-BVFC | Air France | 9 July 1976 | Preserved at Musée Aeroscopia, Toulouse, France |
| 210 | G-BOAD | British Airways | 25 August 1976 | Preserved at the Intrepid Museum, New York, United States |
| 211 | F-BVFD | Air France | 10 February 1977 | Withdrawn in 1982 and broken up in 1994; surviving sections are not a complete airframe |
| 212 | G-BOAE | British Airways | 17 March 1977 | Preserved at Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados |
| 213 | F-BTSD | Air France | 26 June 1978 | Preserved at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Le Bourget, France |
| 214 | G-BOAG | British Airways | 21 April 1978 | Preserved at The Museum of Flight, Seattle, United States |
| 215 | F-BVFF | Air France | 26 December 1978 | Preserved at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France |
| 216 | G-BOAF | British Airways | 20 April 1979 | Preserved at Aerospace Bristol, Filton, United Kingdom |
The first airline aircraft to fly was F-BTSC, construction number 203. Production then alternated broadly between Toulouse and Filton, although first-flight dates did not always follow construction-number order: British-built 214 flew before French-built 213.[3]
Air France and British Airways each operated seven production aircraft in passenger service. The two airlines began scheduled Concorde services on 21 January 1976 and retired the type during 2003. Aircraft 201 and 202 were not part of either seven-aircraft commercial fleet.[2][4]
Survival and preservation
The 18 substantially complete survivors are distributed across France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Barbados and the United States. Museums generally preserve the aircraft as static exhibits; their survival does not imply airworthiness. Returning an airframe to flight would require more than restoring engines or systems because the type's certification, continuing-airworthiness support and specialist supply chain are no longer active.[1]
Le Bourget is the only museum site displaying two Concordes together: prototype F-WTSS and Air France production aircraft F-BTSD. Toulouse also preserves two aircraft, F-WTSB and F-BVFC, at Aeroscopia. Other collections hold one airframe each.[7][8]
F-BVFD was withdrawn from Air France use in 1982 and broken up in 1994 after long outdoor storage and corrosion. Components survive, but it is not counted among the 18 complete aircraft. F-BTSC was destroyed in the crash of Air France Flight 4590 in 2000 and is likewise absent from the preserved fleet.[9][10]
Selected individual histories
G-BOAG, construction number 214, flew the final British Airways commercial Concorde service from New York to London on 24 October 2003. Its retirement flight to Seattle on 5 November set a New York-to-Seattle time of 3 hours 55 minutes 2 seconds. The aircraft is displayed at The Museum of Flight.[5]
Air France donated F-BVFA, construction number 205, to the Smithsonian after its final flight on 12 June 2003. F-BVFB, construction number 207, was transported to Sinsheim after retirement and is displayed beside a Tupolev Tu-144. Its museum record gives a first flight on 6 March 1976 and entry into the Air France fleet on 8 April that year.[11][12]
G-BBDG, construction number 202, was the first British production-standard Concorde and never entered airline service. After serving as a test and spares aircraft, it was dismantled for transport from Filton to Brooklands and restored for public display.[4]
Data notes
Dates in the tables are first flights, not delivery or entry-into-service dates.
Original operator identifies the airline that first placed a commercial production aircraft into service; the six development aircraft have no airline delivery.
Present locations describe the airframe as at 29 August 2026 and do not imply that every exhibit is publicly accessible at all times.
F-BVFD components are treated as remains, not as a nineteenth surviving airframe.
Related pages
Sources
Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde manufacture - Aeroflight, accessed 29 August 2026
Classification of Concorde no. 1 as a historic monument - French Ministry of Culture, 2025
Concorde, Fox Alpha, Air France - Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, accessed 29 August 2026
Concorde G-BOAG - The Museum of Flight, accessed 29 August 2026
Concorde prototype aircraft G-BSST - Science Museum Group, accessed 29 August 2026
Concorde G-BBDG history - Brooklands Museum Concorde project, accessed 29 August 2026
Concorde Hall - Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, accessed 29 August 2026
Concorde F-BVFB - Technik Museum Sinsheim, accessed 29 August 2026
Scrapping F-BVFD - Heritage Concorde, accessed 29 August 2026
Air France Flight 4590 final report - Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses, 2002
Image source and licence: British Airways Concorde G-BOAG - Ian Gratton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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