Concorde ”Alpha Delta”, the last Concorde ever to fly into New York, has been moved from the currently closed Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum to historic Floyd Bennett Field which sits astride Jamaica Bay, Brooklyn. The supersonic jetliner, owned by British Airways, will be open to visitors during an 18-month rebuilding of the Intrepid's Hudson River pier. A barge transported the aircraft to the new site, which is waterside, and it was then towed on its own wheels to the new location.
Floyd Bennett Field is named for a pilot who had flown Admiral Richard E. Byrd, a polar explorer, over the North Pole in 1926. It opened in 1931 as New York City's municipal airport and was used by such aviation pioneers as Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes. Today, its wide open spaces are used primarily by police and fire helicopters, advertising blimps and aviation exhibitions. Situated on the Brooklyn side of the Marine Parkway Bridge it can be seen by Kennedy bound passengers to their left when inbound on the north easterly runways.