Concorde The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde was a Franco-British supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies started in 1954, and France and the UK signed a treaty establishing the development project on 29 November 1962, as the programme cost was estimated at £70 million (£1.39 billion in 2020). Construction of the six prototypes began in February 1965, and the first flight took off from Toulouse on 2nd … Continue reading The Arrival of Concorde at the Museum of Flight, 19 April 2004.