Manchester Monday 6th April 2026.

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Rear view of a squat and boxy, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner facing slightly to the right but mostly away from the camera. The plane has a grey upper half and dark blue lower, with a thin red pinstripe on the lower fuselage, ending in a half arrowhead at the front. There are black "British Airways Express" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The top half of the tail are dark blue, with a large grey heraldic crest in the middle. The lower half is grey, with a dark blue and red triangle at the rear. A group of people, some wearing bright yellow hi-viz jackets, are clustered around the left rear of the plane. Grey concrete apron fills most of the background, with A pair of white airbridges hanging off the side of a grey building on the left of the frame, and a larger jet airliner wearing the same livery nosing into frame from the right.

Side view of a helicopter parked facing to the right on black tarmac apron. The chopper is mostly grey, with a pair of red stripes running along the body and up in to the tail, and a black belly. The black registration "G-PACO" is on the rear of the engine cowling on the top of the airframe, outlined in red. The cockpit door is wide open, showing part of the cockpit, with a man in a blue jacket standing beside it.. There are small black "Cardinal" titles on the passenger door. In the foreground, there is a patch of lush green grass, with all sorts of grass clippings and similar item piled up in the corner. Tall green chainlink fences are in the background, with trees in the distance, under bright but hazy sky.

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor-engined military transport parked facing to the right. There is a red and blue stripe running from under the nose to the tip of the rear fuselage, getting wider as it goes towards the rear. The tail is blue at the front and black at the rear, with a white, winged horse standing on it's rear legs in the middle. There are "Royal Netherlands Air Force" titles on the forward fuselage, just below "F27 Display 15" titles behind the cockpit windows. The serial "C-8" is at the bottom of the tail in white, with black "334 Sqn" titles on a white fillet at the front of the tail. Green grass fills the foreground, with more green grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance, under flat grey skies.

ide view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey taxiway. The plane is largely white, with blue "Air Transat" titles on the forward fuselage. The rear fuselage is dark blue, with multi-coloured greetings - "Welcome", "BemVindo", Willkommen", "BienVenue", and many more - on the side. The tail is the same dark blue, with the light blue outline of a star in the middle. Green grass on the left and Grey and black taxiways on the right fill the foreground, with grey terminal buildings stretching across the frame from the left, and flat grey sky filling the rest of the frame.

Side view of a single-engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with blue registration "G-BJXA" on the rear fuselage. A large, blue-tinted bubble canopy covers the cockpit, over the wing root. Grass fills the foreground and most of the background, with green and brown trees in the distance, under grey sky.

Side view of a single-engined bi-plane trainer aircraft parked facing to the right on grass. The plane has a dark brown, almost black body, with a pair of open cockpits, and a blue, white, and red roundel just aft of the rear cockpit. Red struts connect the wings, the top wing suspended over the forward fuselage. The white serial "H5199" s painted on the rear fuselage, and repeated on the small, curved tail which has red, white and blue vertical bars. A man s standing in front of the plane, holding onto the leading edge of the lower right wing. A black runway s at the bottom of the image, but it looks as if the plane is going to take off from the grass. A red and white building next to a blue hangar fills the background.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with 2 thin light green and a slightly thicker dark green stripe running along the body, under the passenger cabin windows. There are dark green "Manx" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration "G-LOGC". The tail is the same dark green, with a wide red horizontal stripe outlined in white, with a white, armoured treskelion in the middle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a white baggage loader driving from left to right in the bottom right corner, along with some baggage carts. More concrete apron fills most of the background, with a wide strip of grass separating that from a black runway and more grass in the distance.

Side view of a single-engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the left. The plane's lower half and nose is dark blue, with white upper surfaces and tail. The white registration "G-AZGF" is on the lower rear fuselage. Short green grass fills the foreground, with longer yellowing grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance under hazy grey skies

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey runway. The plane is mostly white, with a blue belly, and "British" titles on the lower forward fuselage. The black registration "G-GNTZ" is on the lower rear fuselage, while the tail and rear fuselage is covered in a black, grey, red, and white tartan. In the foreground, a large group of people is gathered around, some looking at this plane but mostly staring in various, different directions, with a black mesh fence between them and the runway. Green grass in the background leads up to trees in the distance, under cloudy white sky.

On This Day 6th April 1992.

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