The retired Concorde jet that belongs to New York's Intrepid Museum was sailed down the East River in New York as it returns home after a seven-month restoration.
The supersonic jet travelled by barge up the Hudson River and will be lifted by a crane onto Pier 86, the officials at the decommissioned aircraft carrier turned museum said in a news release.
The needle-nosed aircraft left Pier 86 on August 9 2023 for a restoration project at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that included sanding and repainting.
It was barged from Brooklyn to a Jersey City, New Jersey, dock for storage overnight Wednesday prior to being reinstalled on the pier on Thursday.
The final steps of the short journey will conclude on Thursday morning, with Concorde set to arrive between 9.15am and 9.30am local time.
Visitors can watch from Pier 86, which will open to the public at 9am, as the aircraft arrives.
Approximately two hours after its arrival, Concorde will be lifted by a 300 foot crane and returned to Pier 86, which will be live-streamed via 'Concorde Cam' on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
“The Concorde is a product of Anglo-French cooperation. When the Concorde entered Air France and British Airways' transatlantic service in 1976, it was the only operational supersonic passenger transport in the world,” the Intrepid Museum's website explains.
“With a crew of nine, the Concorde could fly at 1,350 mph (2,150 kph) at an altitude of 60,000 ft (18,181 m), high enough for its 100 passengers to see the Earth's curvature.”
The Concorde is the only supersonic commercial jet that ever flew. The Intrepid's British Airways Concorde still holds the record for the fastest transatlantic crossing by a passenger aircraft - 2 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds from Heathrow to JFK.
Public tours of the jet will resume on April 4, museum officials said.
