The last Concorde ever to fly made its final journey earlier this month, when it was towed to a hangar by British Airways and Airbus engineers in preparation for it becoming the centrepiece of the Bristol Aviation Centre —
a £19 million museum that will open in the summer.

The specially built hangar had to have one wall removed to allow the supersonic passenger plane to get inside with only 3.3ft to spare at each wing-tip.

The Concorde — registration G-BOAF — was the last of the 20 that were built from 1969 onwards and operated from 1976.

It made its first flight in April 1979 and its final flight — from Heathrow to Filton — in November 2003.

The aeroplane had stood out in the open until being towed a quarter of a mile into its new home.