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Photo of HRH The Princess Royal at the Concorde50 gala dinner.

Sunday 9th June 2019 SH (Editor)

Royal guest at Concorde 50th anniversary event

Princess witnesses dramatic moment as iconic plane’s ‘droop nose’ lowered for first time since November 2003. Aerospace Bristol, home to the last Concorde ever to fly, has celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of Concorde’s first British flight with a dinner attended by HRH The Princess Royal, patron of the museum. Delivered in partnership with Airbus, the Concorde50 gala dinner was held

Photo of Concorde 216 being moved across the runway at Filton.

Wednesday 12th April 2017 SH (Editor)

Filton Concorde completes final journey to new £19m home

The last Concorde ever to fly has safely completed her journey to Aerospace Bristol, a new £19m museum that is due to open this summer at a site on the Patchway side of the former Filton Airfield. The complex move was conducted with the greatest care by engineers from British Airways and Airbus, who managed every facet of Concorde’s final