Concorde Taster Tour | G-BOAC | Manchester Airport Runway Visitor Park | 22.07.2017

Concorde Taster Tour | G-BOAC | Manchester Airport Runway Visitor Park | 22.07.2017. British Airways Concorde G-BOAC Current Registration Date - 11/08/1980 Registration Status & Reason - De-registered 04/05/2004 (Permanently withdrawn from use) Known as – Alpha Charlie or 204 Manufacturer’s Serial Number – 100-004 Production Type – Concorde Type 1 Variant 100-102 Manufacturing Number - 5102-01 Manufacturer - BRITISH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION Assembled at - BAC Filton Bristol, UK Year Built - 1975 Aircraft Class - Fixed-Wing Landplane Engines - 4 x Rolls-Royce Olympus 593 MK 610-14-28 Max Take-off Weight - 185070kg Registered Owners - BRITISH AIRWAYS PLC, WATERSIDE (HBA3), PO BOX 365, HARMONDSWORTH, WEST DRAYTON, UB7 0GB Registration history:   First Registered as G-BOAC on 3rd April 1974 to the British Aircraft Corporation Ltd.   5th January 1979 aircraft re-registered as G-N81AC / N81AC by British Airways / Braniff Airways.   11th August 1980 aircraft re-registered as G-BOAC by British Airways.   De-Registered – 4th May 2004 CofA / Permit – (Transport/Passenger) Suspended 16/05/2005. Hours Flown – 22,260 hrs 11mins Landings – 7,730 landings Supersonic Flights – 6,761 Concorde G-BOAC last flight was her retirement flight from Heathrow to Manchester Airport on 31st October 2003, the flight number for this flight was BA9020C. Flight number BA9020C, left Heathrow for Manchester on her final journey. On the flightdeck that day were Captain Paul Douglas, Captain Mike Bannister, Engineering Flight Officer Robert Woodcock and Engineering Flight Officer Trevor Norcutt. After 27 years in service, Alpha Charlie had flown for 22,260 hours and made 7,730 landings. She is known as Alpha Charlie, and British Airways considers her to be the Flagship of BA and their Concorde Fleet as it carries the letters ‘BOAC’ which were also the initials of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, the forerunner, along with British European Airlines, to British Airways. G-BOAC was the aircraft chosen to launch the Washington service on the 26th of May 1976. It is the oldest Concorde in the BA fleet, although not the oldest officially owned by BA (that honour falls to G-BOAA), it is also the heaviest; mainly due to the fact that it was one of the first built and the other aircraft all benefited from the design being tweaked and the weight being reduced as production went along. #Concorde