Side view of a single-engined light aircraft moving from right to left along a grass runway, with flaps extended from the rear of the wings, and the nose-wheel just coming off the ground, suggesting the plane is taking off. The plane is almost all white, with a red stripe outlined in black running along the body, overlaid with the black registration "G-CGFG" on the side of the rear fuselage. There is a red anti-dazzle panel on top of the nose, in front of the cockpit, as well as a red stripe at the top of the tail. Short-mown green grass fills the foreground, with a strong shadow from the plane cast on the ground to the right, suggesting that the light is coming from the upper left corner. Slightly longer grass fills the background, leading up to bushes smeared into a blur in the distance.

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Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner moving at speed from right to left along a black runway. The plane is mostly purple, with a thick, yellow, diagonal band and a thinner, red, diagonal band wrapped around the rear fuselage, and a white diagonal band wrapped around the rear fuselage and tail. There are large, white "Flybe" titles over a row of 6 white dots on the side of the forward fuselage, with the white text "Operated By Stobart Air" next to a white leaf, above the rear cabin windows, and the white registration "EI-FMJ" below those windows. The white tail has diagonal light and dark blue "FlyBe" titles above a line of 2 yellow, two red, and 2 purple dots. There is additional black text "ATR 72-600" at the top of the tail. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass on the far side of the runway leading up to trees in the distance, with a white and red small building on the right edge of the frame, almost hidden behind the tail, and smeared into a blur. Bright but hazy sky fills the rest of the frame.

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Side view of a white, single-engined light aircraft parked facing to the right on grass. The plane is mostly white, with red, orange, and yellow stripes wrapped around the nose and running along the body, overlaid with the red registration "G-CCDS" on the side of the rear fuselage. Similar but thicker stripes run from front to rear of the middle of the wings. There are images of a couple of frolicking characters on the tail, one wearing red and blue clothes and playing a red pipe, with the other wearing orange, green, and yellow clothes, doing a handstand. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass in the background, leading up to trees in the distance. A man wearing a green t-shirt is walking behind the plane's rear fuselage, with more light aircraft parked just beyond that. Blue-grey sky fills the top of the frame.

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Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner parked on a runway facing to the left. The plane has a very pale blue, thick stripe running along the body under the passenger cabin windows, with a green stylised flying bird that looks as if drawn by a single stroke of a brush behind the cockpit, and green "Cathay Pacific" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail is green with a larger white version of the bird logo. The upturned wingtips are also green, this time with just the tips of the birds wings bleeding through from the white underside of the planes wings. The engine pods slung under the wings are the same pale blue as the body stripe. A wide strip of green grass dominates the foreground, with a black mesh metal fence stretching across the bottom of the frame. In the distance, grey hangars can be seen under the planes nose, with a wide grey terminal under the mid and rear fuselage, Blue sky with smears of thin grey cloud fill the rest of the frame.

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Side view of a long, thin, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, parked on a runway waiting for it's take-off clearance. The plane is largely white, with silvery-grey "Scandinavian Airlines" titles above and below the forward cabin windows, just aft of the forward door. The grey registration "EI-FPJ" is on the side of the lower rear fuselage, just in front of the engine pods. The engine pods themselves are red at the front and white at the rear, with white "Scandinavian" titles on the red portion. The dark blue tail has white "SAS" titles at the bottom, a design repeated on the up-turned wingtips. Green grass fills the foreground, lining the sides of the grey runway. More grass lines taxiways in the background, with a grey terminal building in the distance on the right of the frame, with a large grey hangar and a tall grey and black tower on the left. Blue sky with wisps of grey cloud fill the top of the frame.

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Side view of a white, twin propellor-engined BizProp rotating as it takes off, moving from right to left with it's nose-wheel lifted off the ground and main wheels just lifting. There is a thin gold and blue stripe running along the body, turning up into the tail and getting wider, the gold stripe wrapping over the top of the body, the blue stripe forming the front of the tail. Ther registration "G-LYDF" is on the lower part of the tail, reflecting low but strong sunlight. The plane's pilot can be seen through the cockpit side window, but the dark cabin doesn't reveal any passengers. Green grass fills most of the foreground, with more grass leading up to a large grey hangar on the right, and the forward fuselage of a white jet airliner with blue and red "Avro RJX" titles on the side on the left of the frame. Leafless trees and grey sky fill the rest of the frame.

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, just a few metres above a black runway, with undercarriage lowered, and flaps hanging down from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly white, with large, black "Brussels" titles over smaller "Airlines" text on the upper forward fuselage, with large and small dots in shades of black, grey, and blue scattered across the body. The black registration "OO-SNI" is on the side of the rear fuselage, under small EU and Belgian flags. The tail is white, with red and grey dots scattered around. Lush green grass fills the foreground, with more grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance, under bright but hazy sky. A couple of low buildings are visible under the plane in the background, brown brick on the left, and grey concrete blocks further back on the right.

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by an almost-out-of-frame low-slung red truck attached to the nose-wheel by a long red pole. The plane is largely white, with red "Jet2Holidays" titles on the lower forward fuselage, the word "Holidays" having a yellow to red vertical gradient. There is orange text "Package holidays you can trust" on the upper fuselage, over the wings, and the black registration "G-HLYF" on the side of the upper rear fuselage. A diagonal blue band wraps around the rear fuselage and tail, with a red, orange, and yellow sunburst design filling much of that blue space. The engine pods mounted under the wings are the same blue as the rear fuselage, with a smaller version of the text "Jet2Holidays" logo from the lower forward fuselage. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a black terminal building filling the background, a grey jet airliner with a red tail behind this plane on the left. Several tall lighting poles reach into the grim grey sky.

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Side view of a high-winged, single-engined light aircraft parked facing to the left on grass. The plane is mostly dark blue, with a thick white stripe running along the bottom of the body, with a thinner white pinstripe running from the nose to the tail, under the cockpit, overlaid with the white registration "G-AWVA" on the side of the rear fuselage. There is a white stripe near the top of the tail, with the word "Cessna" in black. Orange and white traffic cones are attached to the underside of support struts running from the bottom of the fuselage to the underside of the mid-point of the wings by a long blue rope, acting as weights in case of high winds. Green grass fills the foreground. A silver light aircraft is in the background, a blue cover over the cockpit area, with it's silver, yellow, and black tail towering over this plane. More grass in the background leads up to trees and bushes beyond that, with rolling hills meeting grey sky in the distance.

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Rear side view of a white, large twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. There is a thick, very pale blue stripe running along the body, overlaid with green "Cathay Pacific" on the forward fuselage. There is a thick green band around the tail, with a thick, white brush stroke resembling a flying bird in the middle, a design repeated in a smaller form under the cockpit. An array of blue and white or yellow and white planes are lined up, facing in various directions in the background. Rows of trees stretch across the rear of the frame, marking the edge of the airfield, under grey skies.

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