Aircraft Number - Current Location - Notes
001 - Le Bourget Air Museum, Paris - prototype, never entered commercial service
002 - Somerset Royal Naval Air Station - ditto
101 - Cambridgeshire War Museum - test aircraft, never entered service
102 - Orly Airport, Paris - ditto
201 - Aerospatiale, Toulouse - ditto
202 - Brooklands Museum, Weybridge - ditto
203 - crashed 25 July 2000 killing all aboard- oldest Concorde in service, flew almost 12,000 mi
204 - Manchester Airport - flew 22,260 mi
205 - Dulles Airport - 17,824 mi
206 - Edinburgh Museum of Flight - 22,786 mi
207 - West German museum - 14,771 mi
208 - Heathrow - 22,297 mi
209 - Airbus factory, Toulouse - 14,332
210 - Air & Space Museum, New York - 23,397 mi, longest serving Concorde
211 - scrapped in 1994 - retired in 1982 after a hard landing in 1977, only 5,814 mi
212 - Barbados airport - 23,376
213 - Le Bourget Air Museum, Paris - 12,974 mi
214 - Museum of Flight, Seattle - 16,239 mi
215 - Paris CDG airport - 12,420 mi
216 - Bristol airport - 18,257 mi
Concordes flew for 27 years and a total of just under a quarter million miles. By comparison, the average modern jetliner flies about 50 million miles EACH before retirement. The final commercial flight was October 24, 2003.
Of the 20 Concordes built, 18 remain intact. Richard Branson tried to buy them but was rebuffed.
Concordes consumed about 6 gallons of fuel per mile. A Boeing 747 consumes about 5 gal/mi. However, a 747 holds 400 people while a Concorde maxes out at 100. Therefore per gallon, Concordes take a passenger 16.7 miles and a 747 takes one 80 miles. Fuel cost per passenger New York-to-London is $99 on a 747, but $474 on a Concorde. That Concorde ticket was $8,000 per seat, a 747 costs about $350. The main reason Concordes stopped flying is that they were limited to overwater routes due to the sonic booms, and there wasn't enough business there to support them. Toward the end, Concordes had trouble attracting passengers due to the ticket cost and the discomfort of the aging planes. Figures on occupancy aren't posted online, that I could find, but after 9/11 it fell to "less than 50%".
The 747 takes eight hours to fly across the Atlantic, the Concorde took 3.5. Businessmen therefore paid $1700/hr for the convenience. Fred Finn flew the Concorde 718 times.
The Concorde could fly faster than the earth turned, so you could literally fly into sunrise on a lunch flight.
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