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Photo of the Day 17th June 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a single engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the left.

G-HAYY, Czech Aircraft Works SportCruiser, at Manchester Barton during a Fly-In, 3rd June 2023.

Tails Tuesday 17th June 2025.

Close-up of the rear fuselage and tail of a pair of near-identical jet airliners parked facing to the left. The planes have white bodies, with a blue rear fuselage and tail, with a large red and orange sun burst. The nearest plane has the black registration "G-LSAK" on the upper rear fuselage. The second plane has some red, fairly indistinct text running along the body. There is a third plane from the same airline showing most of it's fuselage behind them. Another white jet airliner is in the background on the left. Bright sunlight floods the frame, causing reflections all over the place.

G-LSAK, Boeing 757-23N, Jet2, and a couple of it's sister planes at Manchester Airport, 6th February 2023, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

Tails Tuesday 2 17th June 2025.

Close-up of the triple tail of a piston-engined airliner in a retro colour scheme on display in an outdoor museum. The plane is mostly white with a blue stripe running along the body. The plane's triple tails are white, with blue bands across the middle, containing a yellow oval with a stylised flying blue bird in the centre. Pale blue sky fills the rest of the frame.

D-ALAP (fake registration, actually D-ALEM), Lockheed 1049G Super Constellation, in Lufthansa's 1950's livery, at Munich Strauss, 30th September 1996.

This plane never actually served with Lufthansa, actually flying for Air France.

The original D-ALAP was broken up in 1967.

Tails Tuesday 3 17th June 2025.

Close-up of the rear fuselage and tail of a 3 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white body with a red belly and a grey stripe covering the passenger cabin windows. The tail and rear fuselage are red, with a stylised white bird in the white outline of a circle in the middle of the tail. The white engines are mounted on the top and sides of the rear fuselage , with the centre engine intake being built in to the front of the tail, but exhausting below it. The black registration "LY-AAP" is at the bottom of he tail. Grey and black concrete apron fills the foreground, with black taxiways divided by large grassed areas fills the background.

LY-AAP, Yakovlev Yak-42, Air Lithuania, at Warsaw Airport, 3rd October 1993.

Tails Tuesday 4 17th June 2025.

Close-up of the green tail of a twin engined jet airliner parked on it's stand facing to the right. The plane has a white body with a green body, while the tail is green with a white "PIA" text logo. A grey terminal building is in the background, with a couple of blue planes parked against it.

AP-BEG, Airbus A310-308, Pakistan International,  at Amsterdam Schipol, 27th September 1996.

I only ever saw 1 PIA A310, but saw it twice, at different airports, in 6 days.