Manchester

Photo of the Day 12th June 2025.

mancavgeek

12 Jun 2025 • 2 min read

G-AWOF, Piper PA-17 Vagabond, taxiing to one of the hangars at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 12th June 1993.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with large blue "TurkishAirlines" titles on the upper forward fuselage, red letters "THY" on the upper rear, and the black registration "TC-JDY" under the tail.. The tail is red, with a stylised red flying bird in a white circle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a collection of bizarre-looking yellow metal frames in the background, in front of so duck-egg blue fuel tanks. Black hangars stretch across the frame beyond that, under typically grey Mancunian sky.

TC-JDY, Boeing 737-4Y0, Turkish Airlines, taxiing out to the runway at Manchester Airport, 12th June 1993, as seen from the top of the Terminal 1 car park.

On This Day 12th June 2014.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left along a grey runway. The plane is mostly white, with a multi-tone green/blue stripe running along the body, and green "First Choice" titles on the upper forward fuselage. There is additional green text "FirstChoice.co.uk" on the upper rear fuselage, and black registration "G-OOBL" just aft of the rear door. The tail is a green/blue, with a stylised red flower in the middle. The engine pods under the wing are the same green blue. Lush green grass lines the runway in the foreground, with pale blue sky and fluffy clouds filling most of the background.

G-OOBL, Boeing 767-324ER, operated by Thomson in First Choice colours, lining up on Runway 23 left at Manchester Airport, 12th June 2014, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

'Throw Thursday 12th June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right, following a white line on the taxiway. The plane is mostly white, with dark blue "ATI" titles on the forward fuselage, with a lighter blue triangle filling the lower part of the letter "A", and a dark blue stripe running along the body, turning up into the tail where it repeats that letter "A". There are black "DC-9" titles on the bare-metal engine pods on the sides of the rear fuselage. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with large areas of green grass lining taxiways and a black runway in the background, with a grey and yellow terminal building stretching across the frame in the distance, with a very large, grey and blue jet airliner parked nose in in front of it.

I-RIKS, Douglas DC-9-32, ATI, operating an Alitalia flight at London Heathrow, some time in the early 1990s, as seen from the roof-top terraces on The Queens Building.

This livery is basically the Alitalia livery, but in shades of blue rather than red and green.

'Throw Thursday 2 12th June 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by an out-of-frame tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long pole. The plane is mostly white, with dark blue "Air France" titles on the lower rear fuselage, with the black registration "G-JEAO" on the upper rear. The tail has a series of dark blue diagonal stripes, thicker towards the front, with a single red stripe at the rear. Grey concrete apron fills most of the rest of the frame, with a row of orange and white traffic cones in the background on the right, and a couple of people wearing hi-viz jackets wandering around. Bright patches on the ground suggest that, while the sun bay be shining brightly, as suggested by the strong shadow this plane casts on the ground, but it was raining not too long ago.

G-JEAO, British Aerospace 146-100, in Air France colours but operated by Jersey European, being pushed back from it's gate at London Heathrow, some time in the late 1990s, as seen from the terraces on The Queens Building.