Concorde Rare Andre Turcat 1st flight pilot signed 1976 Silk illustrated FDC, Midi Pyrenees Toulouse special postmark. Major André Édouard Marcel Turcat (23 October 1921 – 4 January 2016) was a French Air Force pilot and test pilot celebrated for flying the first prototype of Concorde for its 1969 maiden flight. Turcat was born in Marseille into a family in the automotive industry. He studied at École polytechnique. In 1983 he founded the Académie nationale de l'air et de l'espace.

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