Sud Est SE.210-3 Caravelle c/n 001
Historical data / Données historiques:
- Roll Out on 6th April 1958 (F.WHRA)
- First flight as Caravelle I: 18.5.1958
- WFU for inspections and modifications on
5.8.1958
- In service again on 29.12.1958
- End of initial testing on 26.1.1959 (WFU)
- Transferred to CEV for Evaluation on 27.1.1959
- Returned to Sud Aviation on 2.2.1959
- Intensive Airline-type utilisation from 7.2.1959
until 11.2.1959
- Certification programme from 26.2.1959 until
18.3.1959
- Handed over to AIR FRANCE on 2.4.1959 as F-BHRA
- Named "Alasace" on 13.4.1959
- Damaged at Orly on 29.4.1959
- In service again on 5.5.1959
- Converted to Caravelle III in 1960
- Withdrawn from use at Orly on 19.12.1975
- Trucked to Vilgénis for use as instructional airframe
on 5.2.1976
- Will be soon be exposed at the Musée de l'Air at
Bourget
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