Photo of the Day 16th June 2023

Side view of a single engined light aircraft being towed to the right by a man in a checked shirt. The plane has a high-mounted wing, with struts connecting the middle of the wing to the side of the fuselage. The plane is mostly white, with blue stripes running along the body. In the background is a large grey metal building.
G-CLFG, TL Ultralight TL-3000 Sirius, being hand-towed City Airport Manchester/Barton, 23rd July 2019.

Side view of a long, thin, twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to righ just a couple of feet above a runway, with it's nose raised, undercarriage extended, and flaps deployed below and behind the wing. The plane is mostly white, with a red and brown stripe running along the body, with a similar stripe covering the leading edge and top of the tail. In the background is a large grassed area, leading up to a large farmhouse with several barns, surrounded by trees.
OY-NPC, Swearingen SA227AC Metro III, North Flying AS, about to touch down on Runway 24 at Manchester Airport,

 

Close up of the tail of a three-engined jet airliner parked facing to the right. The planes body is mostly white, with a series of thin red diagonal linessweeping up from the lower rear fuselage up through the tail, where the lines join together to form the image of a leaping gazelle. The background is filled with a grey and white terminal building, with a blue and white plane parked at one of the other gates.
TS-JHW, Boeing 727-2H3, TunisAir, parked on stand at Amsterdam Schipol, either 1992, 1993, or 1996.