Historical

Paris to Washington

CDG → IAD

Air France's first commercial Concorde flight to the United States, which left Charles de Gaulle operated by Captain Pierre Dudal. The Concorde aircraft that made this flight is held in the National Air and Space Museum's artifact collection. For this map, we painstakingly reconstructed the route based on the actual flight plan.

Route

Paris (CDG) → Washington (IAD)

Flights

AF053

Airline

Air France

Aircraft

Aerospatiale/BAC Concorde

Date

24 May 1976

Distance

6,440 km

Flight time

3h 47m