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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Air France Takes Delivery of the First Boeing 777-300ER

  Boeing 40-33, Airport Road, Everett, Snohomish County, Washington, 98204, United StatesBoeing Commercial Airplanes

  

  Starts 04/29/2004CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins81% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 81%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better22.5 years ago

  Boeing's release is dated 2004-04-29 and the mirrored text reads 'Boeing, Air France and International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) celebrated the delivery today of the first Boeing 777-300ER'; Wikipedia^[2] gives April 29, 2004 as well.

  Boeing, Air France and lessor ILFC celebrated the delivery of the first 777-300ER on 29 April 2004, the extended-range stretch that became the best-selling 777.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Concorde Returns to Passenger Service After the Gonesse Crash

  Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, FranceAir France

  

  Starts 11/07/2001CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins77% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 77%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better25.0 years ago

  CNN^[1], 7 November 2001: "Concorde Resumes Passenger Flights"; the AP dispatch of 6 November says Air France "will be the first to fly its newly remodeled Concorde, on a sold-out Paris-New York flight leaving at 10:30 a.m." and British Airways followed an hour later.

  Air France and British Airways resumed Concorde passenger flights to New York on 7 November 2001, fifteen months after Flight 4590, with Kevlar fuel-tank liners, reinforced undercarriage and new tyres.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Air France Concorde Flight 4590 Crashes at Gonesse, Killing 113

  Route de l'Europe, Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, Ile-de-France, FranceAir France

  

  Starts 07/25/2000 2:42PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins79% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 79%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better26.3 years ago

  This Day in Aviation: "on Tuesday afternoon at 14:42 UTC (16:42 local time), Air France Flight 4590 ... began its takeoff from Paris Charles de Gaulle".^[1]

  Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde bound for New York, crashed into a hotel at Gonesse minutes after takeoff from Paris on 25 July 2000, killing all 109 aboard and four on the ground, the type's only fatal accident.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Air France Takes Delivery of the First Airbus A320

  Chemin de l'Autan, Blagnac, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France métropolitaine, 31700, FranceAirbus

  

  Starts 03/28/1988CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins80% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 80%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 5 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better38.6 years ago

  Aviation Week^[1]: "The first A320 was delivered on 28 March 1988 to Air France"; other sites give 26 March, so the day follows the trade-press history.

  Air France received the first Airbus A320 on 28 March 1988, a 153-seat jet that began scheduled flying the next month.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Airbus Launches the A320 Programme With Its Fly-by-Wire Single-Aisle

  Chemin de l'Autan, Blagnac, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, France métropolitaine, 31700, FranceAirbus

  

  Starts 03/02/1984CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins85% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 85%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better42.6 years ago

  Aviation Week^[1]: "On March 2, 1984, Airbus^[2][3][5] launched the Airbus A320 with 96 orders"; Airbus itself says "The 40th anniversary of the A320 programme, launched in March 1984" and counts 80 orders from five companies.

  Airbus launched the A320 on 2 March 1984 with orders from five airlines, committing to a 150-seat twinjet that would bring digital fly-by-wire to a civil airliner.

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• Aerospace10/08/2026@TravelDesk

  Concorde Begins Scheduled Supersonic Passenger Service

  Heathrow Airport Terminal 3, Cromer Road West, Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England, TW6 1QT, United KingdomBritish Airways

  

  Starts 01/21/1976CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins77% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 77%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better50.8 years ago

  Wikipedia^[1][2][3][4]: "Concorde began scheduled flights with British Airways and Air France on 21 January 1976", on the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.

  British Airways and Air France began scheduled Concorde flights on 21 January 1976, London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, the world's first supersonic airline service.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Air France Flies the Airbus A300 on Its First Revenue Service

  Heathrow Airport, Bath Road, Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England, UB7 0EH, United KingdomAirbus

  

  Starts 05/23/1974CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins81% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 81%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better52.4 years ago

  Airline Ratings^[1] says 'On May 23, 1974, Air France premiered the huge airliner on its trunk route from Paris to London-Heathrow and back'; Wikipedia^[2] gives the same date.

  On 23 May 1974 Air France began scheduled A300 operations, premiering the first twin-engine wide-body airliner on its Paris to London Heathrow trunk route with two round trips.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Air France Takes Delivery of the First Airbus A300

  Aéroport de Toulouse-Blagnac, Rue Jean Cocteau, Font-Grasse, Grand-Noble, Blagnac, Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Occitania, Metropolitan France, 31700, FranceAirbus

  

  Starts 05/10/1974CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins79% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 79%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 6 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better52.5 years ago

  World Airline News's^[1] photo caption states 'The A300 was delivered to Air France on May 10, 1974' (msn 005, F-BVGA) next to Airbus's^[6] own statement on the entry-into-service anniversary.

  Air France took delivery of the first production Airbus A300B2, msn 005 registered F-BVGA, on 10 May 1974, thirteen days before the type entered scheduled service.

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