Photo of the Day 19th November 2023

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a thick, dark blue cheatline running along the body and sweeping up into the tail, where it forms the outline of a letter "A", with a light blue triangle inside. There are large, dark blue, billboard-style "ATI" titles on the forward fuselage, as well as black "DC-9" titles on the engine pods, and the registration "I-RIKS" on the lower rear fuselage in black. In the background, strips of grass and tarmac lead up to a large grey and yellow terminal building at the top of the frame, with a very large, 4 engined, grey and dark blue jet airliner parked in front, slowly vanishing in to haze.
I-RIKS, Douglas DC-9-32, ATI Aero Transporti Italiani, taxiing to it’s gate at a slightly hazy London Hethrow, 1992.

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, with a thin double red cheatline seperating the 2 colours. The same colours are inverted on the tail, red at the botom and blue at the top. There is a white ellipse on the blue section of the tail, with the blue and red letters "SEA"in the middle. There are blue and red "Steerling European" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the registration "OY-SAU" on the upper rear fuselage. In the foreground, the top of a terminal building can be see at the bottom of the frame. In the background, yellow metal frames stand in front of a large, duck-egg blue fuel tank on the upper left of the frame, with various buildings stretching across the rest of the frame, all under a yellow-tinged grey sky.
OY-SAU, Boeing 727-2J4, Sterling European Airlines, at Manchester Airport, some time between March 1994 and May 1997.

 

Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the right, with a woman with blonde hair and wearing a pale blue top leaning in to the cockpit. The plane is mostly white, with a blue cheatline running along the fuselage, overlaid with the blue registration "G-BDNC" on the rear fuselage. The engine cowling is in a bare metal finish. In the background, a small grey building is just coming in to view behind a wooden fence on the left of the frame. Grass stretches off into the distance, with a couple of other light aircraft on the right of the frame under a grey sky.
G-BDNC, Taylor JT-1 Monoplane, at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.