Record-setting Concorde set to return to museum home after restoration

A retired British Airways Concorde supersonic aircraft is transported by barge on the East River in New York. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie)

The retired Concorde airliner that belongs to New York’s Intrepid Museum will return to its home on a Manhattan pier on Thursday after a seven-month restoration, museum officials said.

The supersonic jet will travel by barge up the Hudson River and will be lifted by a crane onto Pier 86, the officials at the decommissioned aircraft carrier turned museum said in a news release.