The last of the Air France Concordes, the Fox Fox, is now on show at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
On Monday 17 October in the middle of the afternoon, the Concorde taxied along 3,500 metres between the Air France Industries hangars and its exhibition stand at Roissypôle.
On Wednesday 19 October early in the morning, the aircraft will be raised and permanently mounted on pylons. In the next few days, its installation will be completed with a lighting system designed by Emmanuel Clair from the company Light Cibles.
Finally, on 4 November, the exhibition of Concorde will be officially inaugurated by Pierre Graff and Jean-Cyril Spinetta, respectively Chairman and CEO of the Paris Airports Authority and Chairman and CEO of Air France.
«The presence of our last Concorde at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport will be a constant reminder of 27 years of supersonic operation. It also marks a long-standing partnership in the world of aviation with the Paris Airports Authority»,
declared Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Chairman and CEO of Air France.
The Paris Airports Authority has built a monument consisting of a platform on a small piece of land of 3000 sq.m., located between the villages of Mauregard (77) and Roissy-en-France (95). The special feature of this exhibition is the twofold incline of the aircraft: 5° on the vertical axis and 6° on the lateral axis, giving the spectator the impression that the aircraft is about to take off.
Registered under F-BVFF («Fox Fox»), this Concorde took off for the first time in Toulouse on 26 December 1978 and was delivered to Air France on 23 October 1980. It made its last flight on 11 June 2000, after 12,421 flight hours and 4,199 landings.
The three other Air France Concordes are exhibited at the Air and Space Museum in Le Bourget, France, at the Technik Museum Speyer at Sinsheim in Germany and at the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution) in Washington.
The fourth Concorde was entrusted to Airbus Industrie to be exhibited in Toulouse-Blagnac as from 2008 in a dedicated aeronautical space: «Terre d'Envol».
I will have to investigate and find out where that special platform is, somewhere

between Mauregard and Roissy-en-France...
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