BA Concorde makes final journey, on a barge

British Airways’ Concorde has made its way back home to the Intrepid Museum in New York, via barge along the Hudson River. It follows a months-long restoration project in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Concorde was loaded onto a barge and travelled up the Hudson River to Weeks Marine in Jersey City for storage overnight before arriving back at the museum yesterday (14 March 2024), where it was lifted by a 300 foot crane (very slowly) and returned to Pier 86.

The British Airways Concorde, the fastest commercial aircraft in the world, has been a staple of the Intrepid Museum since its arrival to Pier 86 in 2003.

The restoration project included removal of the aircraft’s paint coating, sanding, and recoating, using the same colors and markings that made Concorde a true aviation legend.

Concurrent with the restoration, the museum is renovating a section of Pier 86 adjacent to where Concorde is displayed. Tours of Concorde will resume on April 4, 2024.

Intrepid Museum, a private non-profit, was founded in 1982 with the acquisition of the WWII aircraft carrier Intrepid. That’s a US National Historic Landmark and the centrepiece of the collection. It also houses the world’s first space shuttle, a nuclear weapons-carrying submarine, dozens of military aircraft and a supersonic spy plane, in and around the aircraft carrier.

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