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'Last Concorde' makes its final journey

As the 'last Concorde' made its final journey, we look back at the iconic plane's history. It will be the centrepiece of the £16m Bristol Aerospace Centre, which has been built around a listed WW1 hangar.
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Scheduled flights began on 21 January 1976 on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio (via Dakar) routes, with BA flights using the "Speedbird Concorde" call sign to notify air traffic control of the aircraft's unique abilities and restrictions, but the French using their normal callsigns.
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British Airways retired its Concorde fleet on 24 October, 2003. 
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Credit royhahmann

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde is a retired turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport (SST).
Concorde 001 made its first test flight from Toulouse on 2 March 1969, piloted by André Turcat, and first went supersonic on 1 October.
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