NEW YORK — The retired Concorde jet belonging to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a Manhattan pier Thursday after a seven-month restoration, Intrepid officials said.
The supersonic jet will travel on a barge down the Hudson River and be lifted by crane to Pier 86, officials from the decommissioned aircraft carrier that was converted into a museum said in a statement.
The spiky aircraft left Pier 86 on August 9, 2023 for a restoration project at the Navy Shipyard in Brooklyn that included sanding and repainting.
It was transferred on a barge from Brooklyn to a port in Jersey City, New Jersey, to be stored overnight Wednesday before being reinstalled at the dock Thursday.
The Concorde is the only commercial supersonic jet to ever fly. British Airways’ Intrepid-owned Concorde still holds the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft, at 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds, from Heathrow Airport to JFK.
Public tours of the jet will resume April 4, museum officials said.
2024-03-14 02:50:35
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