Concorde 211 F-BVFD first flew on 10 February 1977. In November that year she suffered a heavy tailstrike when landing in Dakar, Senegal (the stopover on the Paris-Rio Concorde route). Repairs were administered to the aircraft, and depending on who you ask, this may have added a lot of weight to the airframe, meaning she consumed a fair bit more fuel compared to her sisters.

By 1982, Air France found they had a surplus of Concorde for the demand in the market, and so took F-BVFD and F-BTSC out of service in that year. F-BVFD last flew on 27 May 1982.

In 1986, an upturn in Concorde demand saw F-BTSC return to service, that aircraft later crashing in the AF4590 disaster.

F-BVFD never was returned to service, instead being used as a source of spare parts for her fleetmates. By 1994, she had become an eyesore, the decayed Concorde sat on the CDG apron. It was then decided to scrap her, the first of any Concorde airframe to be taken apart, and to this day, the only one of the 20 airframes to be deliberately dismantled.

She had just 5814 flight-hours on the clock, by far the fewest of any of the production Concordes.