The ￡19-million Aerospace Bristol museum and learning centre opened to the public on 17 October on the site of the Bristol Aeroplane Company factory at what remains of Filton airfield. The industrial heritage museum - which received a ￡4.7-million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund - has been developed by the Bristol Aero Collection Trust to celebrate more than 100 years of aerospace design and engineering at Filton. Among an impressive collection of exhibits are the prototype Bristol 173 tandem-rotor helicopter, G-ALBN/XF785, which first flew in January 1952 and has never before been displayed in a major museum, BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde G-BOAF, which made the last ever Concorde landing at Filton on 26 November 2003, a Rolls-Royce (originally designed by Bristol Siddeley) Pegasus turbofan-powered Sea Harrier FA2, ZD610, and a Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missile.
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