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"Fox-Alpha" will be the first Concorde exhibited by a museum in the United States and is the oldest of five in the Air France fleet The airline ended 27 years of Concorde service last month and, through an earlier agreement, signed in 1989, they had promised the Smithsonian the airplane on its retirement.
“ Thanks to the generosity of Air France, this aircraft that captured the imagination of the world will now dazzle visitors at the Udvar-Hazy Center,” museum Director Gen. J.R. “Jack” Dailey said. “As we approach the next century of flight, the story of this remarkable airplane lives on as testament to the next generation of aerospace design as well as our trans-Atlantic friendship.”
In donating the aircraft to the Smithsonian, Air France Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta said the airline is confident “Concorde will be seen and admired by as many people as possible.”
The airplane will be kept at a Dulles airport storage location for several months while the museum continues to move smaller aircraft and space artifacts into the new museum facility.
The Concorde, almost 204 feet long and with a maximum landing weight of just over 109 tons, is far too large and heavy for display in the downtown Washington DC Mall building. It will be exhibited at ground level in the Udvar-Hazy Center aviation hangar at Dulles Airport
Concorde F-BVFA launched Air France’s supersonic service, flying Paris to Dakar to Rio de Janeiro in January 1976, and inaugurated the airline's Washington service later that year. The aircraft made a round-the-world trip in 1998 in 41 hours, 27 minutes. On delivery to the Smithsonian, it Fox-Alpha will have accumulated 17,824 flight hours during 6,967 flights.
The museum’s Dr. F. Robert van der Linden, who will be curator for the Concorde, was on the airplane’s last flight. The aircrafts final pasenger servcie was from New York to Paris on May30th 2003. The aircraft flew overhead the airport runway, dipping her wings, before circling around and coming in for landing