British Airways has withdrawn one of its concordes (listed above) from service to use for spares, etc. to maintain the remainder. They hope they will continue to fly until approximately 2020 because although the aircraft are physically quite old, in terms of flight hours and landings the airframes are very young.

Six Concordes were also bulit as prototypes/test vehicles. They are preserved in museums in Le Bourget, Yeovilton and Duxford. One is at Orly, Paris, one at Toulouse and one at Filton, Bristol.

[This message has been edited by james (edited 07-26-2000).]