Heller 80469 Concorde-Air France Scale 1/72. Plastic kit to assemble. In 1956, France and England simultaneously began studies of a supersonic transport aircraft. In 1961 they created two separate projects which merged on 29 November 1962 into a single project, bringing together four main companies: Aérospatiale, BAC, Rolls-Royce and SNECMA. The first prototype 001 left the Toulouse factory on 11 December 1967. On 9 October and 4 December 1975, French and British airworthiness certificates were issued after 5400 hours of flight, including 2000 of supersonic flight. Concorde had already broken the altitude (21,000 m) and speed (March 2) records. On January 21, 1976, under the colors of Air France and British Airways, a new era of scheduled commercial air transport began. F-BTSD, serial number 213: retired to Le Bourget where it is exhibited at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace. F-BVFA, serial number 205: retired to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington. F-BVFB, serial number 207: Unloaded in Speyer and loaded onto a truck bound for the Technik Museum Sinsheim. F-BVFC, serial number 209: returns to its homeland among its descendants, Airbus, at Aeroscopia Toulouse. F-BVFF, serial number 215: Displayed at Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, also called Roissy.
