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The museum is situated on Filton Airfield and the main exhibition is housed in a First World War Grade II listed hangar, [2] A second hangar from the same era, also Grade II listed, is used as the workshop and storage area for items undergoing restoration, [3] with Concorde exhibited in a new, purpose-built hangar. The exhibits cover over 100 ...
This Concorde was once used as a source of spares, before being restored using parts from Air France's F-BVFD, and has flown 16,239 hours. [25] G-BOAF : (216) first flew on 20 April 1979 from Filton and was the last Concorde to be built. [26] It made Concorde's final flight on Wednesday 26 November 2003.
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 technology.
After the fly-by, we landed at Filton airfield, where Concorde had also landed. I took other photos of the aircraft being towed into its hangar, with the pilot waving from the window.
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 as the centrepiece of the Aerospace Bristol museum, [5] which opened in 2017. This museum also houses the Bristol Aero Collection and ...
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Filton's runway was wider than most, at 91 m (300 ft), and had a considerable length of 2,467 m (8,094 ft), having been extended for the maiden flight of the Bristol Brabazon airliner in 1949. Its size was beneficial in the late 1960s and early 1970s for development and manufacture of the supersonic Concorde. [3] Filton had a succession of owners.
Concorde (left) and Tu-144 in Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim Boeing 2707 3-view diagram Lockheed L-2000 mockup Concorde was one of only two supersonic jetliner models to operate commercially; the other was the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144 , which operated in the late 1970s.