It performs a feat equal to a supersonic jet's circling the globe six inches off the ground.
Air France, the only other company to operate the delta-winged supersonic jet, has a fleet of five jets.
The supersonic jet was grounded soon after it crashed after take off in Paris last July, killing all 109 on board and four on the ground.
Air France is taking bookings for the full resumption of scheduled Concorde services on November 7, 15 months after the supersonic jet was grounded by the Paris crash.
France's aerospace heavyweight Dassault Aviation pointed to the future last year when it unveiled plans for the Falcon SST, a supersonic business jet.
The belief that some of them would like to has inspired Aerion, a firm based in Reno, Nevada, to devise the world's first supersonic business jet.
In June the defence minister flew on board a Russian-built supersonic Sukhoi-30 fighter jet.
Supersonic Aerospace International have been developing a 12-seater luxury aircraft, the Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) jet, which they hope will take to the skies in 2013 and reduce the noise of the sonic boom to no more than the noise level of a truck driving past your window.
The U.S. Air Force is currently test-flying an optionally piloted supersonic drone over the Gulf of Mexico based on a modified F-16 fighter jet.
Although private supersonic travel is some way off, potential producers are enrouraged by the success of Executive Jet Inc.
Executive Jet senior vice president Kevin Russell says his company could buy "anywhere between five and 50" supersonic jets when they become available.
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