Concorde aircraft histories

Concorde
British Airways Concorde in 1986
Role	Supersonic airliner Type of aircraft
Manufacturer	BAC (now BAE Systems) Sud Aviation (now Airbus)
First flight	2 March 1969
Introduction	21 January 1976
Retired	26 November 2003
Status	Retired
Primary users	British Airways Air France See Concorde#Operators for others
Number built	20 (including 6 non-airline aircraft)[1][2]

Twenty Concorde aircraft were built: two prototypes, two pre-production aircraft, two development aircraft and 14 production aircraft for commercial service. With the exception of two of the production aircraft, all are preserved, mostly in museums. One aircraft was scrapped in 1994, and another was destroyed in the Air France Flight 4590 crash in 2000.