Olympus69 From Canada, joined Jun 2002, 1737 posts, RR: 8 Posted (9 years 6 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1787 times:
Seeing a recent request for a BA Concorde reg. reminded me that I took a photo of an Air France Concorde departing YYZ on July 11, 1997. I can't quite read the registration but it might be F-WTSC.
I don't see an Air France Concorde listed with that reg. - the closest is F-BTSD but I'm fairly sure it is F-Wxxx on my photo.
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 1, posted (9 years 6 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1775 times:
Check this site for a complete listing of all Concorde registrations:
It appears that the only aircraft with a French registry starting with "W" were three Concordes in the "development fleet," registered F-WTSS (Aircraft 001), F-WTSA, and F-WTSB.
Check this link to see the listing and disposition of each aircraft:
JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 2, posted (9 years 6 months 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1744 times:
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 3, posted (9 years 6 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1720 times:
Agreed, the aircraft in that photo is F-BTSC. I didn't realize he was asking about THAT photo in particular, just some random pic he'd snapped.
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Olympus69 From Canada, joined Jun 2002, 1737 posts, RR: 8 Reply 4, posted (9 years 6 months 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1701 times:
I found F-BTSC listed in my 2000 edition of 'Airlines'. It also listed its previous registration as F-WTSC. I had forgotten about the one that crashed - the reason I couldn't find it in my 2003 edition. I tried re-scanning the original print, but couldn't make the reg. any clearer.
I am beginning to feel like a jinx. I now have 4 photos on A.net of airliners that came to a disastrous end. Apart from F-BTSC they are :-
N736PA Pan Am B747-121 'Clipper Victor'
HB-IWF Swissair MD-11
N14053 American Airlines A300-B4-605R
GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12708 posts, RR: 80 Reply 5, posted (9 years 6 months 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 1665 times:
AF Leased the then F-WTSC from Aerospatiale, eventually buying it outright in I think round 1980, but it was re-registered as F-BTSC in May 1975, according to the info I have, in that case it would have been F-WTSC for only 4 months, having first flown in this guise in Jan 1975.
BA leased 214, as G-BFKW in 1980, in early 1981 it joined BA outright as G-BOAG.
(Which is how 216, flying for the first time a year later than 214, ended up as G-BOAF in 1980, originally having the BAe reg G-BFKX, when leased to BA it was G-N94AF for the Braniff operated leg between IAD-DFW).
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