Brooklands Museum have been offered Concorde G-BBDG. BA's 8th Concorde. it should arrive from FZO in the rarly summer.
It is not a simple method of moving it and putting it on display, as the aircraft was stripped of just about every part over the past 20 years.
Only a few museums in the UK have a "workforce" capable of carrying out this massive restoration task.
What is going on at the museum will ensure that all 10 UK built Concordes will be on display to the public. Brooklands was DG's final chance of survival, There was a high probability that is would have otherwise been munched to get it out of FZO.
Concorde G-BBDG was the first production spec Concorde built in the Uk and it carried out a lot of the flying that led to certification. it also carried out test flying after entry into service, with its final flight being on Christmas eve 1981
Concorde coming to Brooklands will be truly Concorde coming home. The BAC Weybridge site built to forward and rear fuselage sections (inc Fin) for all the Concordes that were then assembled at Filton and Toulouse. With Concorde on display the museum will have a near enough complete line up of Vickers/BAC/Weybridge built aircraft. That include the Varsity, Vanguard, Vicount, VC10, 1-11 and Concorde.
For more information go to
http://www.brooklandsmuseum.com and then click onto their
Concorde pages