How much does a Concorde cost?
In 1977, the airlines bought their initial complement of 9 aircraft for around 23 million each ($46 million US dollars). This would equate to around 200 million ($350 million) at todays prices. its was decided in 1979 that 5 unsold aircraft were to be placed with the state airlines if no further byers were found.. BA bought a/c 214 and 216 for a nominal costs of around of a few thousand pounds, but did pay the going rate of over a million pounds to fit out the ‘white tail’ aircraft to their standard. In 1984, BA bought to government out of the Concorde programme for £16.5M, they gained title to the remaining spares tooling and aircraft 202, a primary part of the deal was that BA bought its way out of the 80/20 profit split, that was in favour of the governemnt. The airline took on the full Concorde program running costs at this stage too, which were around 50 million PA, and many hundreds of millions over the next 20 years. The development costs of Concorde were around 1.134 billion, w
