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Manchester Monday 8th September 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left.

C-GOJC, Airbus A321-271NX, Air Transat, taxiing the last few feet to it's gate on Terminal 1 at Manchester Airport, 16th may 2023, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

Manchester Monday 2 8th September 2025.

Side view of a helicopter parked facing to the right on black tarmac apron. The chopper is mostly grey, with a pair of red stripes running along the body and up in to the tail, and a black belly. The black registration "G-PACO" is on the rear of the engine cowling on the top of the airframe, outlined in red. The cockpit door is wide open, showing part of the cockpit, with a man in a blue jacket standing beside it.. There are small black "Cardinal" titles on the passenger door. In the foreground, there is a patch of lush green grass, with all sorts of grass clippings and similar item piled up in the corner. Tall green chainlink fences are in the background, with trees in the distance, under bright but hazy sky.

G-PACO, Sikorsky S-76C, Cardinal Helicopter Services, parked at the heliport at Manchester Barton, 29th November 2022.

Manchester Monday 3 8th September 2025.

Close-up front view of the nose of a twin propellor-engined airliner parked on black tarmac, more or less facing the camera. The plane is grey, with a dark blue belly, the 2 colours separated by an orange, red, and mid-blue stripe running along the body. The planes right-hand engine can be seen on the left of the frame. The nosewheel leg has a red tag attached to a pin just below the landing light, and there is a yellow chock in front of it, to prevent the plane from moving, with a white chock behind the wheel. In the background, part of the crowd can be seen, along with an advertising hoarding for Lynx deoderant. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

N314UE, British Aerospace Jetstream 4101, Atlantic Coast Airlines, in United Express colours, on display at Woodford Airshow, 25th June 1994.

Manchester Monday 4 8th September 2025.

Distant rear view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner flying away from the camera at a low altitude, with the undercarriage still lowered, flaps extended from the rear of the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with a red rear fuselage and tail. The sky was blue, with smears of white cloud, but has been rendered as grey and muddy.

VH-OJ_, Boeing 747-438, Qantas, passing 1000 feet or so after taking off from Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in 1993 or 1994.

I was testing the limits of a couple of new bits of kit I had acquired for my camera - a 2x tele-converter, a 3x tele-converter, and a 500mm mirror lens, on a bright and sunny day, standing at the other end of the runway!

This may have given me an effective 3000mm lens, but at the cost of quality - and, indeed, usability!

I replaced this camera in 1994, and sold this and all it's lenses to fund a trip down to Farnborough for the airshow!

Manchester Monday 5 8th September 2025.

Slightly grainy side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from behind the wing, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly dark blue, with a dark grey belly, and a red stripe running along the body. There is white text on the upper fuselage, but only "Co" at the start and "nd" are legible, the rest is being obscured by the wing and engine. There is a red logo with a white diamond on the upper forward fuselage, repeated in a larger form on the tail, and the white registration "G-GNTH" on the lower rear fuselage. Pale blue sky with fluffs of white cloud on the left fill the rest of the frame.

G-GNTH, Saab SF-340B, British Midland, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time after January 1997, as seen from the Airport Hotel pub at the end of the runway.

Manchester Monday 6 8th September 2025.

Rear side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very 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 dark and light blue stripe running along the body, before turning up, the dark blue filling the tail, and the light blue part forming a pole for half a fluttering UK flag. There are large, dark blue "Air UK" titles on the upper forward fuselage, while the last letter, "B" of the registration is on the upper rear, the rest of the reg being hidden by the white engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. Dramatic grey skies fill the rest of the frame.

G-UKFB, Fokker 100, AirUK, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, as seen from Ringway Road, some time in the 1990s.

Manchester Monday 7 8th September 2025.

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage extended and flaps deployed from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly white, with a pair of diagonal red bands around the lower forward fuselage, echoing the design of the Latvian flag. The rear fuselage, rear-mounted engines, and tail are red, with a white circle containing a stylise red flying bird on the tail. There is black text "Latvian Airlines" next to larger "LatAvio" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration on the white, centre engine intake at the front of the tail. Grey and white clouds with patches of blue threatening to break through fill the rest of the frame.

YL-LAB, Tupolev TU-154B-2, LatAvio, on final; approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, as seen from Ringway Road, some time in the 1990s.

Manchester Monday 8 8th September 2025.

Low side view of a squat and boxy, 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 mostly white, with a thick red and thin black stripe running along the body, turning up in to the lower parts of the tail. The undercarriage is contained in sponsons attached by stub wings to the bottom of the fuselage, and by large diagonal supports to the mid-point of the wings. There are red "LoganAir" titles on the upper rear fuselage, the last few letters under the wings, , with the black registration "G-BMHX" further back on the upper rear fuselage, and black text "Scotlands Airline" on the lower forward fuselage, under the cockpit. The registration is also repeated under the outer panels of the left wing. The tail has a red and black logo, a pair of red lines bent through a right angle forming the left and bottom sides of a square, and 3 diagonal black lines of varying lengths stacked to form a triangle forming the other 2 sides. Flat grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

G-BMHX, Shorts SD-3-60-200, LoganAir, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s, as seen from Ringway Road.

Manchester Monday 9 8th September 2025.

Side view of a twin propellor-engined BizProp 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 3-tone blue stripe running along the body, gold and black "Gold Air" titles on the upper forward fuselage just aft of the cockpit windows, and the black registration "G-OLDZ" on the lower rear fuselage. A larger form of the gold and black "GoldAir" titles appears on the white tail. Bright sunlight reflects strongly off the plane, suggesting it is getting quite deep in to a summers evening. Hazy blue sky fills the background.

G-OLDZ, Beech King Air 200, Gold Air International, on final approach to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990s, as seen from The Airport Hotel pub, at the end of the runway.

Manchester Monday 10 8th September 2025.

Side view of a twin engined light aircraft taxiing from right to left along a reddish-grey taxiway. The plane is mostly white, with a green and black stripe running along the body, with the green registration "G-SOUL" on the lower rear fuselage. There are green "Air Atlantique" titles on the wing-tip fuel tanks, and a black shadow of a stooping eagle on the tail. Green grass lines the taxiway in the foreground, with more grass lining both sides of the runway in the background. A black wooden fence stretches across the background from the left, with the tail and rear fuselage of a rather forlorn 3 engined jet airliner coming in to view of the right. Trees in the distance meet bright but hazy sky.

G-SOUL, Cessna 310R, Air Atlantique, taxiing out to Runway 24  at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s, as seen from the Airport Hotel pub.

Note the Hawker-Siddeley HS121-3B Trident looking a bit sorry for itself on the fire dump in the background.