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Side view of the renovated "Belfast" hangar (October 2017) Aerospace Bristol is an aerospace museum at Filton, to the north of Bristol, England.The project is run by the Bristol Aero Collection Trust and houses a varied collection of exhibits, including Concorde Alpha Foxtrot, the final Concorde to be built and the last to fly.
Aerospace: Aerospace Bristol is an aerospace museum at Filton Airfield in Patchway, to the north of Bristol, England. The museum houses a varied collection of exhibits, including Concorde Alpha Foxtrot, the last Concorde to be built and the last to fly, and various other aeroplanes, helicopters, guided weapons, engines and space
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Aerospace companies in Filton include BAE Systems, Airbus, GKN, Rolls-Royce and MBDA, all located around the former Filton Aerodrome. The Concorde supersonic airliner was built here in the late 1960s and 1970s; on 26 November 2003 Concorde 216 (G-BOAF) [ 4 ] made the final flight of a Concorde, returning to Filton to be kept there permanently ...
Until 2010, the aircraft was open for public viewing at the Airbus facility; since 2017 it has been the main exhibit at Filton's Aerospace Bristol museum. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In addition, a nose cone formerly attached to G-BOAF is currently on display in the Concorde Room, part of the BA first class airport lounge at Heathrow Terminal 5 , having ...
Royal Air Force Filton or more simply RAF Filton is a former Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) station located 5 miles (8 km) north of the city centre of Bristol, England. Throughout its existence, RAF Filton shared the airfield with the Bristol Aeroplane Company (later British Aircraft Corporation) whose works, now owned by ...
Concorde G-BOAF rear view on an open day at the British Aerospace factory, Filton, Bristol, England, on June 10th 2006. This aircraft made the final flight of any Concorde, from Heathrow to Filton on November 26th 2003. It is now in its own hangar at the Aerospace Bristol Museum, Filton. Date: Taken June 2006. Source
It flew from Heathrow, passing over the Bay of Biscay before making several low passes over Bristol, including over the Clifton Suspension Bridge where crowds had gathered, before landing at Filton. A new museum, Aerospace Bristol, [24] opened in 2017 to the north of the old runway. This followed the closure of a previous visitors centre in ...