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by hcrisp 917 days ago
Article says the plane it came from flew 16,239 hours so I'm guessing the photo was from initial certification if it was actually used.

Now that the plane is in Seattle and the engine is in the UK, does that mean it was shipped back after the plane landed? What is on display in a Seattle, dummy engines? So many questions.
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mgdlbp 917 days ago
The parts of the logbook shown in the listing seem to imply that this engine was removed in the 1980s when the plane was still registered as G-BFKW.

As for the plane, engines 3 and 4 are visible in a 2010 photo.¹ By 2015 the ducts had all been covered.², albeit № 3 haphazardly in the rear.³

¹ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concorde_(British_AW...

² https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concorde_2015-06_673...

³ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Concorde_2015-06_692...

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