Manchester

Photo of the Day 16th June 2025.

mancavgeek

16 Jun 2025 • 1 min read

G-AZGF, Beagle B.121 Pup 100 Srs.1, parked next to one of the hangars at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

Manchester Monday 16th June 2025.

Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with blue and red "Air Hong Kong" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with some writing in a blue Chinese script below. The planes tail is a pale blue, with dark blue arrow heads arranged in a circle, , pointing inwards, with red lines connecting them. The lower rear fuselage is a dark blue, with the white registration "B-HME" at the top. In the foreground, a group of people are standing by a tall black metal fence at the far end of the beer garden, looking at the plane, bundled up in big coats, which could mean it's winter, or it could just mean its a Tuesday in Manchester. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

B-HME, Boeing 747-2L5B, Air Hong Kong, lining up on Runway 24 by the Airport Hotel pub at Manchester Airport, some time in the late 1990s.

Manchester Monday 2 16th June 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined parked facing to the right. The plane is mostly various shades of green, with bright green at the top, darker blue-grey stripes along the middle of the body, and white at the bottom. There are black "Aer Lingus Commuter" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and a large white shamrock on the green tail. There are doors open at both the front and the rear, with a man wearing a yellow hi-viz jacket leaning on the cabin door while standing outside the rear door. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, while a heavily-glazed terminal building stretches across the frame in the background, with the dark blue tail of a larger airliner rearing over the top of the building on the other side, with trees and grey sky in the distance.

EI-FKD, Fokker 50, Aer Lingus Commuter, parked on Gate 5 at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

Manchester Monday 3 16th June 2025.

Rear side view of a 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with green and blue stripes running along the body, and blue "Uzbekistan" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail is blue, with a stylised white flying bird in the middle, and the white registration "UK-86573" at the base. The 4 engines are mounted in pairs on the sides of the rear fuselage, under the tail. Flaps are already extended from the rear of the wings, even though it has a long way to go before it gets to the runway. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, while taxiways wend their way through large grassed areas in the background, leading up to trees vanishing into haze in the distance, under grim grey sky.

UK-86573, Ilyushin IL-62M, Uzbekistan Airways, taxiing away from the terminal towards the active runway at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 16th June 1996.

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

VR-BQF, LearJet 55, taxiing past the construction site that will become the Terminal 3 extension on it's way to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 16th June 1996, as seen from the top of the T3 car park.