Last week I bumped in to an old acquaintance who now works on the engineering side at BA Heathrow, talking about planes in general I mentioned what was happening to G-BOAB as long ago I believe it was going to be the centre piece in T5 where it was guaranteed covered survival.

I was working on the T5 design at Heathrow, and it had started 3 years before Concorde retired, and in the spring after it’s retirement, we were aware of requests about various possible locations at T5 for it, but none were approved or sanctioned, mostly down to BAA not wishing to have any delays in the tight programme for T5 among a myriad of other reasons. It was never a ‘serious’ proposal tbh.

He said it was in a sorry state and had been towed to the hangars a while ago for possible restoration work but this was abandoned?.
The plane was returned to the beside runway position and is apparently stripped out and “filled with magazines” to weigh it down?

It was moved over to engineering a few months back for a BA families day event, nothing more than that, and was given a power wash to get rid of the grime, to make it look pretty for the day, and then towed back to it’s spot a few days later.