How Concorde Memorabilia Became a Supersonic Collector’s Market

On a frightfully cold day in London, on February 7, 1996, British Airways Concorde G-BOAD touched down at Heathrow airport in light snow and haze just two hours, 52 minutes, and 59 seconds after it had taken off from New York’s JFK airport. Even today, 50 years after its first commercial flight and 22 years after it was retired, the record for a civilian plane crossing the Atlantic remains unbeaten. But traveling supersonic on Concorde meant more than pure, unbridled speed. It…