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Article: British Airways Concorde flies to final home in New York
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- November 10, 2003
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AP Worldstream
11-10-2003
Dateline: LONDON
One of British Airways' seven retired Concorde jets flew from London Monday to New York where it will be housed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.
British Airways also announced dates for the flights that will take two more of the mothballed fleet to retirement homes in Britain and Barbados. One Concorde will fly to Grantley Adams Airport in Bridgetown, Barbados, on Nov. 17 and another to Filton, southwest England, on Nov. 26.
BA said the Filton flight will be the last ever by a Concorde. Two others have already flown to the Museum of Flight in Seattle and to Manchester Airport in northern England, a third will be transported to the Museum ...