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Roissy, October 19th, 2005 The last journey of Concorde on the airport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle

The last Concorde belonging to Air France, "Fox Fox", is henceforth put in exhibition on the platform of the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle.


On Monday, October 17th at midday, the Concorde made a last 3 500 metre rolling between the sheds of Air France Industries and its place of exhibition to Roissyp�le.*

On Wednesday, October 19th at the beginning of the morning, the plane is going to be definitively raised and fixed to masts. In the next days, her installation will be completed by lights conceived by Emmanuel Clair of the Light Cibles company.

Finally, November 4th, exhibition of Concorde will be officially inaugurated by Pierre Graff and Jean-Cyril Spinetta, respectively CEO of Aeroports de Paris and Air France.

" The presence of our last Concorde is going to allow us to remember of the 27 years of exploitation of the supersonic on the airport of Roissy-Charles de Gaulle and highlights, in the story of the aeronautics, our narrow partnership with Aerrports de Paris ", declares Jean-Cyril Spinetta, president of Air France.

Aeroports de Paris realized a monument constituted by a platform, on a plot of land of a surface of 3000 m�, situated between the municipalities of Mauregard ( 77 ) and Roissy-en-France ( 95 ).

The peculiarity of this exhibition is the double slope of the aircraft: 5� on the vertical axis and 6� on the side axis, giving to the spectator the impression that the plane is ready to take off.

This Concorde, registered F-BVFF (" Fox Fox "), made her first takeoff in Toulouse, December 26th, 1978 and was delivered to Air France on October 23rd, 1980. Her last flight took place on June 11th, 2000, after 12 421 hours of flight and 4 199 landings.

Three other copies of the Air France Concorde fleet are exposed, in France, in the Museum of the Air and the Bourget, in Germany, in the Technik Museum Speyer in Sinsheim and, in Washington, in National Air and Space Museum ( Smithsonian Institution).

The fourth Concorde was entrusted to Airbus Industry to be exposed in Toulouse-Blagnac in 2008 in a space dedicated to the aeronautics: "Terre d'envol".

Notes to editorial staffs :

- Around the place of the installation, no fixed stage or particular reception can be set up for the press, because of the nearness of main highways.

- According to the instructions of the authorities, no tv team can have access in reserved zone. Only AFP Photo and Reuters Photo were able to be accredited.

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