The Concorde Project - Restoring Concorde G-BBDG at Brooklands Museum
Description: Restoring Concorde G-BBDG - 'Delta Golf' - at Brooklands Museum
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Concorde Delta Golf's Brooklands journey....
After British Airways retired their Concorde fleet on October 24 th 2003, Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey, made an unsuccessful bid to acquire one of the seven retired BA Concordes. More than 30% of each of the 20 Concorde airframes were manufactured by the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands during the 60s and 70s and the site's unique historical association with the type was the prime reason for the museum's ambition to acquire an example for its aviation collection. Soon after their failed
Although a production aircraft, G-BBDG, or 'Delta Golf' as the aircraft is more affectionately known, never saw airline service but, along with Concorde F-WTSB (c/n 201), she did the bulk of the flying that allowed the final certification of Concorde for airline service as well as being used to train the early British Airways flight crews. Having accumulated 1282 flying hours (of which 514 were supersonic), DG last flew on Christmas Eve 1981. She then went into storage at Filton airfield near Bristol and wa
The Concorde Project - Restoring Concorde G-BBDG at Brooklands Museum