Can you go inside the Concorde plane?

New Guided Tours of “Concorde” at the Intrepid Museum They now have 5 tour guides giving hour long tours daily. The passenger cabin can only be visited during the guided tour, which helps keep the aircraft in better shape.



Yes, you can still go inside several Concorde aircraft preserved in museums around the world in 2026. Of the 20 supersonic jets ever built, 18 survive, and a dozen are open for public tours. Notable locations include the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington D.C., and Aerospace Bristol in the UK. At the Brooklands Museum in Surrey, you can even book a "Concorde Experience" that includes sitting in the original leather passenger seats and a virtual "flight" simulation. These tours offer a rare glimpse into the narrow cabin, the famously compact windows, and the complex analog cockpit that once allowed travelers to cross the Atlantic in under three and a half hours, faster than the rotation of the earth.

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As a result, routes it could serve were limited – primarily London and Paris to New York and DC. But because of the time savings, and the elite status of flying the Concorde on these routes, airlines were able to charge a premium rate of $12,000 round-trip.

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The Concorde's retirement was due to a number of factors. The supersonic aircraft was noisy and extremely expensive to operate, which restricted flight availability. The operating costs required fare pricing that was prohibitively high for many consumers.

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As a former Concorde pilot puts it, You don't actually hear anything on board. All we see is the pressure wave moving down the airplane – it indicates the instruments. And that's what we see around Mach 1. But we don't hear the sonic boom or anything like that.

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In real life, Diana took several trips aboard the Concorde, both with Prince Charles and solo.

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Concorde is sadly no longer flying, but it is still possible to visit some of the remaining 18 airframes, there are others not open to the public but you can still see them.

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Concorde was also popular with the Queen and celebrities. Joan Collins travelled with the aircraft so frequently that she became something of an ambassador for the service. Other notable passengers included Elton John, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor and Sean Connery.

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The Concorde was famously loud: a take-off at Washington airport in 1977 measured 119.4 decibels. By comparison, a clap of thunder hits 120 decibels while the pain threshold for the human ear is around 110.

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Technical, financial, and regulatory hurdles make a return to the skies extremely unlikely. Concorde is an aircraft that captures the imagination and is instantly recognizable even to non-aviation fanatics.

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Boom Supersonic's Overture plane is slated to roll out in 2025, fly in 2026 and expected to carry passengers by 2029. Capable of flying at speeds of Mach 1.7 – twice the speed of today's fastest airliners – Overture will be able to connect more than 500 destinations in nearly half the time.

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The aircraft quickly proved itself unquestionably as it reached speeds of up to 1,354 mph. To put that into context, that is around 800 mph faster than a Boeing 747 and over 350 mph faster than the earth spins on its axis!

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The toilets were at front and centre of the cabin, there was baggage space under forward cabin and aft of cabin. Passenger doors forward of cabin and amidships on port side, with service doors opposite. There was a baggage door aft of cabin on starboard side.

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The North American X-15 may be the fastest plane in the world, with speeds at 4,520 mph and Mach 5.93. It's an experimental aircraft used and powered by NASA and USAF.

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The main reason is that the Concorde had a different design, engine, and fuel system than most fighters. These features allowed it to overcome the challenges and limitations of supersonic flight, such as drag, heat, noise, and fuel consumption.

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