Aerospace Bristol

Aerospace Bristol is a brand new industrial museum in Filton, which tells the amazing story of Bristol’s world class aerospace industry, and houses Concorde Alpha Foxtrot: the last of the iconic supersonic passenger jets to be built and the last to fly. 

The archives of Aerospace Bristol opened to the public in April 2018. The archives are housed within the brand new Concorde building, in a purpose built facility, including an archive store, reading room and office space, built to PD5454 standards. Click here to read about the Friends of Gloucestershire Archives visit.

                           

The archives also hold the substantial company archive which dates from 1910.  The companies represented in the archives include the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, Bristol Aeroplane Company and British Aircraft Corporation, and material on Concorde.  The archive includes minute books, account books, sales ledgers, annual reports, photographs, glass plate negatives, drawings, film and ephemera.   There are also books and journals supporting the collection. 

 

      Photographs courtesy of BAE Systems

Many of our catalogue descriptions are available to search on the National Archives Discovery catalogue. 

More information is available on our website http://aerospacebristol.org/archives/ or by emailing archives@aerospacebristol.org.