Concorde aircraft histories

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Twenty Concorde aircraft were built six for development and 14 for commercial service.These wereTwo prototypesTwo pre-production aircraft16 production aircraftThe first two of these did not enter commercial serviceOf the 14 which flew commercially nine were still in service in April 2003All but two of these aircraft—a remarkably high percentage for any commercial fleet—are preserved.

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introduction date

1976-01-21

manufacturer

Sud Aviation, Airbus Group, British Aircraft Corporation

number built

20

program cost ($)

1.3E9

retired

2003-11-26

unit cost ($)

1977.0