On This Day 13th January 1995.

Rear side view of a high-winged, single-engined light aircraft parked facing to the right on a concrete pad at the edge of a large grassed area. The plane is mostly black, with a blue and yellow stripe running along the body, overlaid with white text "Skydive Scotland" above a smaller, blue telephone number "0821-642881". The registration is painted on the rear fuselage in white, but is largely obscured by the horizontal stabiliser. There are a pair of yellow and blue diagonal stripes on the tail, along with a stylised image of a person, painted all in white, hanging from under a blue parachute. Green grass in the background runs off to a black chainlink fence marking the airfield perimeter, with tree-covered rolling green hills under grey sky in the distance.

On This Day 2 13th January 1996.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, parked facing to the right and slightly away from the camera on grey concrete apron. The plane is mostly white, with blue "Eurofly" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and the black registration "G-COES" on the upper rear, just forward of the white engine pods. The engine pods have black text "MD-83" on the sides. The tail is mostly green, with the rudder painted blue. Seemingly random pieces of apron furniture (mobile airstairs, baggage loaders, maintenanace gantrys, and even a couple of pre-fabricated buildings are scattered across the background, with a large, grey hangar with blue piping on the sides filling the rest of the frame.

Tails Tuesday 13th January 2026.

Close-up of the rear fuselage and tail of a jet airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude. The plane's body is largely white, with the black registration "EI-IXH" on the lower rear fuselage, and a large, stylised, green upper-case letter "A" covering the tail and the extreme rear of the fuselage, with a large red triangle in the middle. The white letters "XH" are right at the top of the tail. Pale blue sky fills the rest of the frame.Portrait-oriented close-up of the rear fuselage and tail of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue stripe running along the body, and dark blue engine pods with a white stripe. The tail is mostly dark blue, with white circle with a stylised, flying red bird in the middle, and the white registration "EW-65149" at the base. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a strip of green grass at the top.

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