Manchester Monday 9th March 2026.

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On: March 9, 2026

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner accelerating from right to left along a black runway. The plane is mostly white, with multi-coloured "Small Planet" titles along the fuselage, successive letters in red, blue, purple, yellow, and green. The black registration "LY-SPE" is on the lower rear fuselage. The engine pods mounted under the wings are a deep blue, with white "SmallPlanet.Aero" text. The tail is dark blue, with a stylised multi-coloured globe and yellow stars. Lush green grass fills the foreground, with tall green trees in the distance behind the plane on either side, under blue sky with smears of cloud.

Side view of a World War 2-era, single-engined military trainer aircraft taxiing from left to right on grass. The plane is covered in a dark brown and orange brown camouflage scheme, with a pale blue belly. There is a yellow, blue, white, and red roundel on the rear fuselage, and a large blue, white, and red fin flash on the tail. The black military serial "AJ841" is on the lower rear fuselage, while the civil registration "G-BJST" is further aft, under the horizontal stabiliser. There is an image of a grey and white cartoon rabbit, obviously based on Bugs Bunny, flying a massively under-sized version of this plane, under the front of the cockpit, with the words "Wacky Wabbit" over the top. The front part of the cockpit canopy is slid back, revealing the pilot sitting in the front seat, wearing a green shirt with a union flag on the top of the sleeve, wearing a black leather flying helmet. Short-mown lush green grass fills the foreground, with longer grass visible under the plane in the background, with trees in the distance under blue sky with lumps of white cloud.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propeller engined, post-World War 2-era airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with flaps hanging down behind the wings. The plane is white on top, with a grey lower half, separated by a green stripe running along the body, partially covering the passenger cabin windows. The fixed undercarriage is attached to struts coming down from the engine pods on the wings, with additional support struts connecting them to the lower fuselage, as well as a longer strut connecting to the outer wing panels and the outer side of the engine pods. The horizontal stabiliser has large vertical endplate, acting as additional tails. The black registration "G-APRS" is on the upper rear fuselage. The 3 tails are green, the outer faces of the stabiliser-tip tails having a wide white stripe with an image of a stooping eagle and the black text "Atlantic" at the bottom. Blue-grey skies fill the rest of the frame.

A twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey taxiway. The plane is largely white, with a grey belly, and black "Lufthansa" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The black registration "D-AIKS" is on the lower rear fuselage, next to a small German flag. The tail is dark blue, with a yellow circle with a stylised flying blue bird in the middle. Grey engine pods hang under the wings, with up-turned grey wing-tips on the end of the wings. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a green wedge of grass spreading across the frame from the right, and the end of a white airbridge in the bottom left corner. Grey cargo sheds spread from side to side in the background, with equipment parked in front, and a grey and yellow rising up behind, nestled in trees, under grey skies.

Side view of a white, single engined light aircraft with an over-sized bubble canopy over the 2 seat cockpit, parked facing to the right. There is a thin blue stipe running along the body, the black registration "G-BNSR" on the lower rear fuselage, and a single letter "R" on the forward fuselage, between the engine cowling and the cockpit. The tail is the same dark blue as the body stripe, with an image of a bronze-coloured winged hunting horn towards the rear. Sodden black tarmac taxiway fills the foreground, with a red and white, single engined, military trainer aircraft in the background on the left, a white van with the word "Aviation" printed on the roof in a gold colour on the right, and crowds of people wandering around in between. A pair of large hangars stretch across the frame in the distance, under grim grey skies.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white with a grey belly and black "Portugalia" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The black registration "CS-TPF" is on the upper rear fuselage, in front of the engines which are mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. A pair of diagonal stripes, one red, one green, are on the side of the side of the forward fuselage, in front of the wings. Smaller versions of these stripes appear on the grey tail, overlaid with a yellow circle. Grey taxiway fills the foreground, with a wide strip of grass in the background separating it from another taxiway, with more grass and a low cream-coloured building beyond that.

Rear side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right and slightly away from the camera, at a very low altitude. The plane has grey upper surfaces and a dark blue belly, with a red stripe running along the lower half, ending in a half arrowhead towards the front. There are black "British Airways Express" titles on the upper forward fuselage, below the wings, with the black registration "G-WACK" on the upper rear. The tail is grey at the bottom, and dark blue at the top, with a grey heraldic crest on the blue section. Grey cloudy sky with occasional bright patches fill the background.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white body, with a blue belly, and a red pinstripe overlaid with blue and red "Augsburg Airways" titles. The tail is dark blue, with a red upper-case letter "A" leaning to the right, with the white outline of a circle behind it. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with grass either side of a black runway in the background leading up to a wide black hangar that stretches across the frame, with a white BizProp parked in front.

Side view of a 4 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted in pairs on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left and away from the camera, along a grey taxiway. The plane is white on top, with a grey belly, and thick green and blue stripes running along the body, over and below the passenger cabin windows, overlaid with blue "Uzbekistan" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The blue stripe on top of the fuselage turns up at the rear to fill the tail, with the white registration UK-86573 at the base, and a highly stylised flying white bird in the middle. The engine pods mounted on the sides of the fuselage are grey. A grey taxiway fills the foreground, with more taxiways wending their way through large grassed areas in the background, with trees in the distance being swallowed up in grey haze.

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