Concorde gets new home at Manchester Airport
25.02.09
Concrode, one of the world's most iconic aircraft, has a new eco-friendly retirement home at Manchester Airport. A new Concorde Visitor Centre, which will display the former British Airways flagship Concorde G-BOAC, has been opened at the Aviation Viewing Park.
The aircraft has been at Manchester airport since its final flight in 2003. The new visitor centre includes a corporate hospitality suite, an education centre for local schools and a glass-walled visitor restaurant alongside Concorde, with views of the runways.
The new building has biomass heating fuelled by willow grown on the airport site, a rain water harvesting system and solar panels. It is the first new building at the airport to comply with its plan of having carbon neutral operations by 2015.
Willie Walsh, British Airways chief executive, opened the new building. He said: ‘Manchester Airport was one of 60 high profile locations worldwide that originally bid to give a home to a retiring Concorde. It gives me great pleasure to see the culmination of that bid in this magnificent new exhibition area and visitor centre.’
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