Photo of the Day 18th June 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: June 18, 2026

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Side view of a twin propellor-engined light aircraft parked facing to the left on grass. The plane is mostly a glossy black, with a thick red stripe running along the body from the nose, then sweeping under the body just aft of the passenger cabin, and another red stripe covering a fillet at the front of the tail, before running diagonally up and across the tail, getting wider as it goes. The red registration "G-BHEH" is on the side of the rear fuselage. Grteen grass fills the foreground, and much of the background, leading up to trees on the airfield perimeter. Flat grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

Front-side view of a twin propellor-engined military transport trainer aircraft parked facing to the right on tarmac behind a low, white, metal fence. The plane has a large red stripe running along the middle of the body, covering the passenger cabin windows, with a red roof and dark blue belly,. The engines mounted on the wing are the same bright red, as is the tail. The nose-cone, and top of the nose in front of the cockpit, is painted matt black. Green grass can be seen in the background, under the plane, with flat grey sky filling the rest of the frame.

On This Day 18th June 1993.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left across a large expanse of grey concrete apron. The plane is largely white, with a blue stripe coming from the nose, getting wider as it sweeps along the body, eventually ending up in the bottom of the tail, over a thin green and blue stripe just above the grey belly. There is a large, billboard-style, grey "MD" and black "90" on the side of the forward fuselage, with much smaller "McDonnell Douglas" titles on the upper fuselage just aft of that. The black registration "N901DC" is on the upper rear fuselage, just ahead of the engine pods. The white engine pods have large, blue "V2500" text, above smaller, green "IAE" text. The white tail has black "MD90" text above a light blue triangle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with strips of grass separating taxiways and a runway in the background, and more grass beyond that leading up to trees in the distance.

‘Throw Thursday 18th June 2026.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner facing to the left but being pushed back to the left by a low-slung grey and dark blue tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long white pole on the left of the frame. The plane is white on top, with a grey lower half. A dark blue stripe runs along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows, with the white registration "SX-BED" at the rear. There is a stylised Greek flag flying as a pennant painted on the upper forward fuselage, with dark blue "Olympic" titles on the upper fuselage above the wings. The tail is dark blue, with a series of inter-connected, multi-coloured rings, and the white, upper-case letter "D" at the top. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with taxiways and a runway in the background separated by strips of grass, with 3, very large, 4 engined, grey and dark blue jet airliners parked facing to the right in the distance. Rolling hills beyond that lead up to the horizon, rapidly being swallowed up in hazy grey sky.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner, facing to the left but being pushed back to the right by an out-of-frame tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long blue pole, with a man wearing a yellow hi-viz jacket walking alongside the nose. The plane is almost entirely white, with blue "Air France" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the blue registration "F-GBYJ" on the upper rear. The tail is white, with a series of diagonal blue lines, getting thinner as they move rearwards, and a final red line. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a couple of planes parked nose-in against an out-of-frame terminal building in the background on the left, with more apron filling the right. The second plane in the background has a slightly different shape from this one, but has pretty much the same livery. In the distance, grass strips separate taxiways, with another plane, this time grey and dark blue, taxies past from right to left.

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