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Concorde Engine Finally Sells On eBay, Afterburner Included
Concorde Engine Finally Sells On eBay, Afterburner Included-November 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:46

The last Concorde to ever fly, lands at Filton airfield on November 23, 2003 in Bristol, England.

A turbojet engine that finally sold over the weekend to one lucky buyer, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be making supersonic booms of their own anytime soon.

The turbojet engine before it finally sold for £565,000 (or $714,500). This particular Olympus turbojet spent its service life fitted to a British Airways Concorde. It’s been 20 years since the supersonic airliner’s final flight, but the Concorde is as emblematic of of commercial aviation.

If you were hoping that the buyer could and put it into another aircraft or even a road car, that likely won’t be possible. The eBay listing stated that the engine was “not able to fly but perfect to dismantle and repurpose into collectible pieces of furniture or art.” Honestly, I don’t want to see anyone dismantle this engine to sell dinky collectibles. We have already seen it done with , getting their fuselages

The Concorde's Rolls-Royce Olympus turbojet engine from the eBay listing

It’s not known who purchased the disused 3.5-ton engine, but they received a considerable discount compared to the original listed price. The Olympus engine was listed for £748,000 in 2019 (or $975,0000.) It is also the only Concorde engine sold by British Airways that still had the afterburner fitted.

It would be incredible to see this Concorde’s engine on display in a museum, like the airframe this turbofan was attached which has been for the past 20 years. Concorde G-BOAG flew its final revenue flight in October 2003 from New York to London Heathrow. The following month, the British Airways plane flew to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where it has been on display ever since.

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