See Concorde F-BTSD (#213), Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris, France

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Concorde F-BTSD (#213) first flew on 26 June 1978 from Toulouse. It was retired to the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace (Air and Space Museum) at Le Bourget, France, on 14 June 2003, joining 001 after flying 12,974 hours. In 1996, this aircraft carried a promotional paint scheme (blue with logo) for Pepsi. The wings were kept white, and while in the Pepsi livery, it was restricted to flying at most 20 minutes at Mach 2.02 and otherwise Mach 1.7 (the plane normally requires a white livery to fly supersonic because of the heat); the branding was estimated to have cost Pepsi $20 million[citation needed]. It flew 16 flights around the Middle East in this livery for hours 49 minutes and 3 seconds on 12/13 October 1992, and eastbound in 31 hours 27 minutes and 49 seconds on 15/16 August 1995. It also was the only Concorde to land in Central America, setting a new time record between Juan Santamaría International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport. In February 2010, it was announced that the museum and a group of volunteer AF technicians intended to restore F-BTSD so it could taxi under its own power. In May 2010, it was reported that the British Save Concorde Group and French Olympus 593 groups had begun inspecting the engines of a Concorde at the French museum; their intent was to restore the airliner to a condition where it could fly in demonstrations,

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