Manchester Monday 12th October 2026.

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Side view of a rather sleek, single-engined light aircraft parked facing to the right on close-cropped grass. The plane is white on top with a grey lower half, separated by a thin, wavy red stripe running along the body. The red registration "G-CGLT" is on the upper rear fuselage, and there is a grey-red-grey-red strip along the top of the white tail. A white spat covers the nosewheel, while the spats over the main wheels have the same white and grey with a red stripe design as the body. Green grass fills the foreground, with a man wearing a yellow hi-viz vest and dark blue trousers standing by the far wing-tip, looking out to the rest of the airfield. A red light aircraft is in the background on the left, a high-winged yellow plane in the middle, and a white and orange plane on the left, with trees in the distance, under blue sky.

Side view of a bare-metal finish, twin engined jet fighter aircraft, with the engines buried in the rear fuselage and a long engine intake in the nose, parked facing to the left in a museum. There is a large red, white, and blue roundel under the cockpit canopy, just aft of a white rectangle with red text "Danger keep clear of intake when engine is running". A blue information plaque is placed in front of the nosewheel, with a couple of black and white photos of the plane in flight and white text telling some facts about the plane, the only decipherable text being the header "Experimental Jet Aeroplane". A vaulted ceiling soars above the plane, layers of wooden panels and translucent glass panels supported by grey metal frames.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the right. The plane is mostly white, with thin blue stripes on the lower fuselage getting wider until they merge into a solid block on the belly. There are dark blue "Britannia" titles on the upper forward fuselage, next to a head wearing an extravagantly plumed helmet. The tail is the reverse of the fuselage, white at the bottom, with thin blue lines getting thicker as they rise up the tail, merging into a solid mass at the top. A silhouetted, white, seated female figure wearing a robe and an elaborately plumed helmet, and holding a trident in her left hand and a white shield covered in a circular British flag in her right, down low by the ground, covers most of the rest of the tail, to modern eyes resembling a woman in a wheelchair. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a baggage-loading truck driving up towards the rear of the plane. A terminal building stretches across the frame in the background, with tree covered hills in the distance, under leaden grey sky.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and a thick red stripe running along the body, covering the passenger cabin windows. There are red "SwissAir" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The white registration "HB-INR" is on the rear fuselage, just aft of the grey engine pods. The tail is red, with a large white cross in the middle. Flat grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner, facing to the left but being pushed back to the right by a low-slung white truck attached to the nose-wheel by a long yellow pole. The plane has a white top half and a grey lower half, with a pair of thin red stripes running along the body, above and below the passenger cabin windows, meeting below the cockpit and just in front of the horizontal stabiliser. The windows themselves have a red, Gothic-styled arch painted around them, giving the impression of being in a castle or palace somewhere. There are red Sanskrit titles that trans-literate into English as "Air India" on the upper mid fuselage, and the red registration "VT-EHO" on the lower rear fuselage. The tail is white, with diagonal red "Air India" titles along the leading edge, and a highly stylised red flying bird filling most of the rest. Green grass fills most of the foreground, with a section on the right of the frame surrounded with a square of black mesh fencing. Grass and bushes are visible under the plane in the background, with trees in the distance being swallowed up in misty grey sky.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is largely white, with a bare metal belly, and black "Jersey European" titles along the lower fuselage, under the passenger cabin windows. There is a large triangle with a ragged lower edge, made up of black, yellow, orange, and red diagonal stripes, repeated in the middle of the white tail. White engine pods hang under the wings, with the main undercarriage descending from the rear sections. Cloudy grey sky fills most of the background, with the upper right quarter being almost entirely clear blue sky.

Side view of a high-winged, four engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey taxiway. The plane has a grey upper half and dark blue lower, with a thin red pinstripe separating the two colours, ending in a half arrow-head just aft of the forward door, under the black word "Express". The black registration "G-MANS" is on the upper rear fuselage. The top half of the tail is dark blue, with a grey heraldic crest in the middle, while the lower half is mostly grey, with a dark blue triangle and diagonal red stripe in the top left corner. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with grass in the background leading up to a black runway, and more grass beyond that, with trees in the distance.

Side view of a high-winged, 4 propellor-engined cargo plane, parked facing to the left, with the cargo ramp at the rear partially lowered. The plane has a white upper fuselage, with a grey lower fuselage, and a blue and red stripe running along the body, overlaid with blue and red "HeavyLift" just in front of the wing, and towards the rear fuselage. The white registration "G-HLFT" is on the rear fuselage, under the tail. The tail itself is mostly red, with a large uppercase letter "H", with a heavy, dark blue drop-shadow down and to the left. A light blue power supply truck is parked next to the sponsons containing the main undercarriage on the sides of the lower fuselage. A blue cargo loader can be seen next to the partially lowered cargo ramp at the rear. In the foreground, the green tail of a jet airliner is bottom right corner of the image, while a white, twin engined jet airliner can be seen on the left of the frame, parked in front of a large, grey and blue hangar.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings. The plane is almost entirely white, with blue "CrossAir" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration "HB-IZY" next to a small Swiss flag on a white fillet at the front of the tail, with the last 3 letters repeated on the open nose-wheel doors. A large patch of blue paint on the side of the rear fuselage is partially overlaid with a patch of red paint, with a similar design on the white tail, a different patch of blue paint partially overlaid with a red quadrilateral with a large white cross in the middle, representing the Swiss flag. Blue sky with wisps of white cloud fills the rest of the frame.

On This Day 12th October 1996.

Front side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left and slightly towards the camera. The plane is mostly purple, with large, white, "FlyBe" titles above a row of six white dots on the forward fuselage, with seemingly random images of stylised bicycles in red, yellow, green, and blue, filling most of the rest of the fuselage., with the white words "Welcome to Yorkshire" on the lower rear fuselage. Yellow, red, and white diagonal bands are wrapped around the rear fuselage and tail, with the large, diagonal word "FlyBe" in light and dark blue on the white tail, with the white registration "G-FBEJ" on the upper rear fuselage. Purple engine pods hang under the wings. Grey taxiway fills the foreground, with grass and more taxiway in the background, and a couple of grey hangars in the distance on the left, the nearest one with a large yellow love heart emblazoned on the doors, and a tall concrete tower with a black top trying to hide behind the plane's tail. Large fluffs of grey and white cloud fill most of the rest of the frame, with a large blue patch in the top left.

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