Photo of the Day 23rd April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 23, 2026

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Front side view of a glossy black helicopter parked facing to the right on grass, with the motor slowly spinning and the pilots door open. The grey registration "N520EA" is on the side of the engine pods on top of the fuselage, and grey text "MD520N" is on the top of the twin tails at the end of the long, fat tail boom. Notably, there is no vertical rotor at the end of the tail boom. There are 2 people sitting in the heavily glazed cockpit, the person sitting in the right-hand seat wearing a white shirt, and using their hands to demonstrate something to the person in the left hand seat, who is wearing a blue shirt. Green grass fills the foreground, with people sitting or standing behind a green metal mesh fence in the background, and a curved, green corrugated metal hangar behind them on the left, and a large brown brick building on the right. Pretty much everyone in the photo is wearing sunglasses, so it is probably a sunny day.

On This Day 23rd April 1993.

Side view of a twin engined BizJet with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, parked on grey concrete apron marked with faded yellow hash markings. The plane is largely a sandy brown, with a dark and light blue stripe running along the body under the passenger cabin windows and along the bottom of the brown engine pods, and the top of the wing-tip fuel tanks. The tail is dark blue, with the white registration "N84DM" at the bottom, and a sandy brown circle containing something that at first glance looks like a pale blue snowflake in the middle. Green grass littered with small yellow flowers fills the background, with a black runway right at the top.

‘Throw Thursday 23rd April 2026.

Side view of a white 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. There is a gold and red stripe running along the body just below the passenger cabin windows, with a second gold stripe just above the windows, and a reversed Bahrain flag (Large red field next to a large white field, separated by a jagged edge - normally displayed the other way around) on the tail. The registration "A9C-BA"is on the centre engine inlet in black. A black runway stretches across the bottom of the frame, separated from this plane by a strip of grass. A brown building stretches across the background, with the grey rear fuselage and tail of a very large jet airliner is on the right of the frame. Leafless trees stand out against grey sky beyond the building.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner accelerating along a black runway, with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and a thin red and green stripe running along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows. There are black "Kuwait Air Force" titles on the upper forward fuselage, in an Arabic script towards the front, and in English further back. The tail is white, with the black serial "KAF321" at the base, and the emblem of the Kuwait Airforce in the middle. Yellow grass lines the runway in the foreground and part of the background, with grey taxiways beyond that4, with a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing out of frame in the top left corner and a grey and red office building in the top right. Brown brick houses and trees beyond that lead off into the distance.

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by an out-of-frame tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long pole. The plane is mostly white, with dark blue "Air France" titles on the lower rear fuselage, with the black registration "G-JEAO" on the upper rear. The tail has a series of dark blue diagonal stripes, thicker towards the front, with a single red stripe at the rear. Grey concrete apron fills most of the rest of the frame, with a row of orange and white traffic cones in the background on the right, and a couple of people wearing hi-viz jackets wandering around. Bright patches on the ground suggest that, while the sun bay be shining brightly, as suggested by the strong shadow this plane casts on the ground, but it was raining not too long ago.

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