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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Boom XB-1 Breaks the Sound Barrier, the First Independent Supersonic Jet

  Mojave Air & Space Port, General Petroleum Road, Mojave, Kern County, California, United StatesBoom Supersonic

  

  Starts 01/28/2025CONFIRMEDDate 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 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 better1.8 years ago

  Boom: "The successful first supersonic flight of Boom's demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, took place on January 28 2025 at the Mojave Air & Space Port"; CBS News^[3], ABC7^[4]/CNN and Boom all date it to 28 January 2025.

  Boom's XB-1 reached Mach 1.122 at 35,290 feet over the Mojave Desert on 28 January 2025, the first supersonic flight by an independently developed jet and, in Boom's words, the first human-piloted civil supersonic flight since Concorde's retirement.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Boom XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator Makes Its First Flight at Mojave

  Mojave Air & Space Port, General Petroleum Road, Mojave, Kern County, California, United StatesBoom Supersonic

  

  Starts 03/22/2024CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins87% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 87%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 better2.6 years ago

  Boom's release is dated March 22, 2024: "Today, Boom announced the successful flight of XB-1"; TWZ^[4] (23 March) says the demonstrator "took flight for the first time yesterday".

  Boom Supersonic's one-third-scale XB-1 demonstrator for the Overture airliner flew for the first time on 22 March 2024 from Mojave Air & Space Port, reaching 7,120 feet and 238 knots.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  British Airways Flies Concorde's Last Commercial Flight

  London Heathrow Airport, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London, England, United KingdomBritish Airways

  

  Starts 10/24/2003 3:05PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate 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 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 better23.0 years ago

  Vintage Aviation News^[1] / This Day in Aviation: "On October 24, 2003, at 4:05 p.m. BST, the final commercial flight of the British Airways Concorde came to an end with the landing of G-BOAG at London Heathrow" (4:05 p.m. BST = 15:05 UTC).

  British Airways flight BA002 from New York landed at Heathrow at 4:05 p.m. on 24 October 2003, ending 27 years of supersonic passenger service; two more Concordes landed alongside.

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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

  Aeroflot Opens Tu-144 Passenger Service from Moscow to Alma-Ata

  Domodedovo International Airport, Domodedovo, Moscow Oblast, RussiaTupolev

  

  Starts 11/01/1977CONFIRMEDDate 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 better49.0 years ago

  AeroCorner^[1]: "Aeroflot opened Tu-144 passenger service on Nov. 1, 1977, between Moscow and Alma-Ata"; Yesterday's Airlines: "real passenger service didn't start until November 1, 1977 flying between Moscow and Alma Ata".

  Aeroflot began passenger flights with the Tu-144 on 1 November 1977 on the 3,100 km Moscow to Alma-Ata route; the service lasted until 1 June 1978, 55 passenger flights in all.

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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

  Concorde 001 Goes Supersonic for the First Time

  Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, Blagnac, Haute-Garonne, Occitanie, FranceAérospatiale

  

  Starts 10/01/1969CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%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 better57.1 years ago

  Musee de l'Air: "The 001 reached Mach 1 on 1 October 1969 and Mach 2 on 4 November 1970"; the Ecole Polytechnique^[2] profile of Turcat says he "piloted Concorde's first supersonic flight on October 1 of the same year".

  Concorde prototype 001, flown by chief test pilot Andre Turcat, passed Mach 1 on 1 October 1969, the western supersonic airliner programme's first flight beyond the speed of sound.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Tupolev Tu-144 Becomes the First Airliner to Fly Supersonic

  Zhukovsky International Airport, Zhukovsky, Ramensky District, Moscow Oblast, RussiaTupolev

  

  Starts 06/05/1969CONFIRMEDDate 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 better57.4 years ago

  This Day in Aviation on the prototype: "CCCP-68001 first went supersonic 5 June 1969. It reached Mach 2.02 on 26 May 1970"; AeroCorner^[5]: "On June 5, 1969, the aircraft had its first supersonic flight".

  The Tu-144 prototype went supersonic for the first time on 5 June 1969, four months before Concorde, and reached Mach 2.02 on 26 May 1970.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  British-Built Concorde 002 Makes Its First Flight from Filton

  Filton Airfield, Filton, South Gloucestershire, England, United KingdomBritish Aircraft Corporation

  

  Starts 04/09/1969 1:22PM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%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 better57.6 years ago

  This Day in Aviation: "9 April 1969: Concorde 002, G-BSST ... made its first flight from Filton"; Trubshaw advanced the throttles at 2:22 p.m. and the aircraft landed at Fairford at 2:45 p.m. (British Standard Time, UTC+1 in 1969, so 13:22 to 13:45 UTC).^[1]

  Concorde 002, G-BSST, took off from Filton near Bristol on 9 April 1969 with Brian Trubshaw at the controls and landed at RAF Fairford, five weeks after French prototype 001 first flew.

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• Aerospace09/21/2026@BuildDesk

  Concorde Makes Its First Flight From Toulouse

  Toulouse–Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, FranceSud Aviation

  

  Starts 03/02/1969CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 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 better57.7 years ago

  Happened as dated, per en.wikipedia.org^[1]: "Construction of six prototypes began in February 1965, with the first flight from Toulouse on 2 March 1969."

  The Anglo-French supersonic airliner, built by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation under a 1962 treaty, flew for the first time from Toulouse. Four Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 turbojets drove an ogival delta wing carrying 92 to 128 passengers.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Tupolev Tu-144 Makes the First Flight of a Supersonic Airliner

  Zhukovsky International Airport, Zhukovsky, Ramensky District, Moscow Oblast, RussiaTupolev

  

  Starts 12/31/1968CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins83% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 83%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 better57.8 years ago

  This Day in Aviation: "31 December 1968: At Zhukovsky Airport ... the prototype Tupolev Tu-144 supersonic airliner took off on its first flight"; Guinness World Records^[2] lists "31 December 1968" for the first supersonic airliner.

  The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 prototype CCCP-68001 flew for 37 minutes from Zhukovsky on 31 December 1968, two months before Concorde, to become the first supersonic airliner to fly.

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• Aerospace10/26/2026@BuildDesk

  US Selects Boeing's Swing-Wing 2707 as Its Supersonic Transport

  Federal Aviation Administration, 800, Independence Avenue Southwest, Ward 6, Washington, District of Columbia, 20591, United StatesBoeing Commercial Airplanes

  

  Starts 12/31/1966CONFIRMEDDate 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 better59.8 years ago

  HistoryLink^[1], AeroCorner^[2] and Wikipedia's^[3][4] Lockheed L-2000 article all give 31 December 1966; Wikipedia's Boeing 2707 article says the winner was announced on 1 January 1967.

  On 31 December 1966 the federal government chose Boeing's swing-wing design over Lockheed's L-2000 to build the American supersonic airliner, later designated the Boeing 2707.

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• Aerospace10/23/2026@BuildDesk

  Britain and France Sign the Anglo-French Concorde Treaty

  Lancaster House, Stable Yard, St James's, City of Westminster, London, SW1A, United KingdomBritish Aircraft Corporation

  

  Starts 11/29/1962CONFIRMEDDate 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 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 better63.9 years ago

  The treaty text ends "Done in duplicate at London, this 29th day of November 1962"; EBSCO^[2] gives "signed on November 29, 1962" and the Flashbak^[4] caption dates the signing photograph "November 29, 1962 in Lancaster House".

  On 29 November 1962 the British and French governments signed a treaty in London to build a supersonic airliner together, sharing work, cost and sales equally. The agreement, with no escape clause, started the programme that became Concorde.

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