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A beautiful, rare and unique piece of memorabilia, and highly collectible. It has made by the exclusive metal art company TMB Art Metal in London, United Kingdom.
The pin badge is made of aluminium from the Concorde rudder that had seen use on three operational Concordes. Serial number ‘VW23’, the rudder spent most of its life upon British Airways Concorde flagship G-BOAC, prior to being finally struck off service in 1992, the rudder failing during a flight from London to New York, having accumulated 10,861 flight hours.
Records indicate that the rudder was initially fitted to Concorde G-BOAG in 1977 before being transferred to G-BOAC, upon which airframe it spent the next twelve years prior to finally being fitted to G-BOAB. The unique thing about this rudder is it was extensively researched by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch at Farnborough, United Kingdom prior to its damage, hence why we know its entire history to the exact flight hour. Concorde had two rudders – VW23 was an upper one – and it started life on G-BOAG in 1977, but after just a few flight hours was removed for modification and fitted to G-BOAC, where it remained in service for eleven years. After it was refurbished in 1989 VW23 was placed in storage, then finally fitted to G-BOAB in late 1991, where it did 254 hours before delaminating at 53,000 feet, Mach 2, mid-way between London and New York in 1992. During its service VW23 accrued a total of 10,861 flight hours and 3,724 landings before being retired, the majority whilst fitted to G-BOAC.
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