Concorde parts for auction
Published September 28th, 2007
A four-day auction of spare Concorde parts is due to begin in Toulouse, south west France.
The auction is to raise funds for an aeronautical museum for the French city, with the centrepiece one of the two supersonic jets it owns.
Items on sale include a 1.2 ton landing gear, a Mach-monitoring speedometer and a windshield.
Concorde was an Anglo-French project, with work on the supersonic aircraft taking place near Bristol and Toulouse.
Airbus sold the parts — half of which are new — in 2003 to the non-profit Aerotheque association for the symbolic sum of one euro.
The auction is expected to reap about $337,000. Most items have been valued at between $70 and $425.
None of the items has a reserve price, according to the auction website.
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