The only Concorde to be scrapped had just 5,814 flight hours before it met its end

The Concorde known as F-BVFD, also nicknamed Fox-Delta, holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only Concorde ever scrapped.

After just 5,814 flight hours, it was withdrawn from service and ultimately dismantled, which is a shockingly short career for an aircraft type that normally flew for decades.

While most Concordes now sit proudly in museums around the world, Fox-Delta met a very different fate.

Today, its remains can still be found at Dugny, near Paris’s Le Bourget Airport, a somber reminder of a jet that once flew at twice the speed of sound.

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This particular Concorde was a little problematic

Fox-Delta’s career ended not because of age or wear, but because of circumstance.

After Air France closed the Paris–Dakar–Rio route in the early 1980s, the jet was deemed surplus to requirements.

It had already been something of a problem child: back in November 1977, the plane suffered a heavy landing in Dakar.

The supersonic airplane touched down at 14 feet per second, well above the 10 fps safety limit, which crushed its tail bumper wheel and required major repairs to the airframe.

Though it returned to service, Fox-Delta never fully regained favor within the fleet.

By 1982, it was retired, and by 1994, after twelve years sitting exposed to the elements, corrosion had taken a serious toll.

Rather than preserve the aircraft, Air France chose to strip F-BVFD for parts to keep the rest of the Concorde fleet flying.

Valuable components such as avionics, windows, and even the nose cone were removed and sold, with the cockpit section going to a wealthy American collector for around €45,000 in 1995 ($60,000 at the time).

Most of the fuselage was hauled to Dugny, where it still rests today, tilted and broken but still recognizable to eagle-eyed visitors.

Most Concordes managed at least 20,000 flight hours

What makes Fox-Delta’s story especially unusual is just how little time it spent in the air.

Most Concordes managed between 20,000 and 30,000 flight hours before being retired in the early 2000s.

By comparison, workhorses like the Boeing 747 can easily surpass 100,000 hours over decades of service.

With only 5,814 hours logged, Fox-Delta barely made it out of its break-in period before being cast aside.

This is like buying a sports car, driving it a few weekends, and then sending it to the scrapyard.

While its peers live on in museums, celebrated as icons of aviation, Concorde F-BVFD remains a rare outlier.

It was the Concorde that never fulfilled its potential, remembered as much for its early retirement as for its supersonic flights.

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