Manchester

Photo of the Day 11th October 2025.

mancavgeek

11 Oct 2025 • 1 min read

TC-ALK, Boeing 727-230, Air Alfa, parked on the cargo ramp at Manchester Airport, some time between April 1994 and October 1996, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

On This Day 1th October 1996.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is largely white, with a thin red stripe on the lower fuselage, a dark blue belly, and dark blue and red "Augsburg Airways" under the passenger cabin windows, in the middle of the body. The white registration "D-BMUC" is on a dark blue fillet at the bottom of the tail, which is also dark blue, and has the white outline of a circle containing a red upper-case "A", which leans to the 11 o'clock position. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with large grassed areas split by black taxiways and a runway in the background.

D-BMUC, De Haviland Canada Dash 8-314, Augsburg Airways, taxiing past the rooftop terraces at Dusseldorf Airport, 11th October 1996.

Gat On A Sat 11th October 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage stowed, flaps extended behind the wings, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with a deep purple belly the sweeps up toward the top of the rear fuselage, bright yellow rear fuselage, and deep purple web address "monarch.co.uk" on the forward fuselage, covering the forward cabin windows. The black registration "G-OZBU" is on the lower rear fuselage, with a stylised black crown that more than resembles an upper case letter "M" on the white tail. Blue sky fills the rest of the frame, with a fluff of white cloud in the bottom left corner.

G-OZBU, Airbus A321-231, Monarch, clearing the perimeter fence as it powers out of Runway 08 Right at London Gatwick, 12th September 2014.