Manchester Monday 3 1st May 2026.

Low, almost head-on view of a high-winged, 4 propellor-engined airliner parked on damp black tarmac, facing to the left. The plane is almost entirely a bright orange, with a air of thin black lines running along the body, the word "British" between them under the cockpit windows. A built-in set of stairs hangs down from the side of the rear fuselage. A smaller, twin propellor-engined airliner in similar colours is visible in the left of the background under this one's wing, with a group of people standing around it, with another, smaller again twin engined white BizProp beyond that. A damp grey taxiway fills the foreground, as well as a good bit of the left of the background, with white and grey sky filling the top of the frame.
VP-FBQ, De Haviland Canada DHC7 Dash 7, British Antarctic Survey, on static display at the annual Woodford Air Show, 6th June 1998.
The British Aerospace factory her at Woodford had the maintenance contract for BAS’s aircraft, which would occasionally trek pretty much halfway around the planet to have some work done.

 

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  1. @mancavgeek I suppose there's a good chance that transited NZ at times.

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