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PARIS (Reuters) - Air France will donate its fleet of five Concordes to museums when it stops flights by the supersonic passenger jet on May 31, the airline says. Air France and British Airways announced in April they were retiring the slender, needle-nosed jets because of rising maintenance costs, excessive fuel consumption and waning demand for tickets at some $7,000 (4,285 pounds) a seat. Air France said it would donate Concordes to the U.S. National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany, the French Air & Space Museum at Le Bourget and an air museum being built by planemaker Airbus in Toulouse. Its fifth Concorde, which has just been overhauled, was scheduled to go on display at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. "In doing this, Air France wishes to allow as many people as possible to see this legendary aircraft, which has made its mark not just on Air France, but on aviation history," it said. An Air France Concorde crashed near Paris in July 2000, killing 113 people. Entrepreneur Richard Branson has expressed interest in buying British Airways's fleet of the 100-seater planes for his Virgin Atlantic Airways, but the airline said it too would rather donate the aircraft to museums.

well thats good to see the boss's didnt buy into any of bransons pleading. and its a nice selection of places for those concordes to go, now all i hope is filton does get one of BA's planes:) i know we already have a prototype in yeovil but i want one just down the road i can visit every weekend, that and the fact filton played a huge roll in its building:)
thanks for the news ozzy

but i want one just down the road i can visit every weekend

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I hope BA do the same sorta thing at heathrow as air france are doing with theirs at Gaulle. Hey at least the next time the french ATC'ers go on strike again theres somthing to look at at both ends!

i am sort of sad that they didn't let Branson buy some, it would have been good to see them still flying, no matter who they are flying for.

Well at least the NASM here in Washington DC is getting one.

At this point cragie is diagnosed as obsessed and is carted off in an ambulance .

'll be back on the streets in 24 hours
i suppose they could extend the roundabout outside heathrow and replace that model concorde with the real deal?

the Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany

yeeeehaw! the already got a 747 an AN-22 and some other nice airplanes there. the museum is ca. 60km away from me, so it's time for a visit,when they've got a concorde there.

btw. still gotta visit that TU-144 in sinsheim,also 60 km away from me...