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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

This day in 1998

On 16 February 1998 Auckland Airport was host to an Air France Concorde around the world charter flight making a techstop on its supersonic journey from Sydney to Papeete.  F-BVFB spent just over an hour on the ground at Auckland operating as AFR4565.  

It was one of four visits to the Pacific region by Concorde in 1998, the first noted was F-BVFA flying from Papeete to Noumea on 18 January as AFR4544, then on 18 September F-BVFC arrived at Christchurch from Honolulu and Papeete as AFR4604 departing on 21 September to Sydney as AFR4605.  F-BVFB visited NZ again that year arriving at Christchurch from Honolulu and Papeete on 11 October and departed a couple of days later for Sydney.

F-BVFB flew its final commercial flight on 31 May 2003, a charter flight from/to Paris Charles De Gaulle and ferried to Karlsruhe-Baden and subsequent preservation with the Sinsheim Auto & Technik Museum, South West Germany.  http://www.concordesst.com/pictures/fbvfb8.jpg

At Auckland 16 February 1998, Mike Condon photos

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