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Photo of the day 18th March 2025.

mancavgeek

18 Mar 2025 • 1 min read

XP820, Dh Haviland Canada DHC-2 Beaver AL Mk1, Army Air Corps Historic Aircraft Flight, taking off for a display flight at Barton Air Show, 22nd May 1994.

On This Day 18th March 1992.

Side view of a white, twin engined BizProp parked facing to the right. The plane has a thin blue stripe running along the body, as well as along the sides of the engine cowlings. The registration "G-NSGI" is displayed prominently at the base of the tail in black.A door is open on the other side of the plane, visible hanging down below the body just behind the wing. A black and grey terminal building with red doors stretches across the top of the frame.

G-NSGI, Cessna 421C Golden Eagle, parked on Pier B at Manchester Airport, 18th March 1992.

On This Day 18th March 1993.

Side view of a white, 3 engined BizJet taxiing from right to left. The plane has a dark blue belly, with a dark blue stripe running along the body below the cabin windows, and along the top of the centre engine and tail. A large grassed area fills the foreground, with more grass separating a runway and another taxiway in the background.

G-BTIB, Dassault Falcon 900B, taxiing past the terraces on The Queens Building at London Heathrow, 18th March 1993.

On This Day 18th March 2016.

Side view of a white and blue, twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage lowered and flaps extended from below the wings, suggesting that it is about to land. The forward fuselage is white, with a dark blue rear fuselage and tail, and a mid-blue center fuselage. The out-stretched wings of a bird cover most of the fuselage, centred on the middle of the planes wings, in light blue at the front and in white at the rear. There are large "787" titles in dark blue on the forward fuselage, and white "DreamLiner" titles on the lower rear fuselage. The tail has a stylised red lotus flower. Cloudy grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

B-2727, Boeing 787-8 DreamLiner, China Southern Airlines, on final approach to Runway 09 Left at London Heathrow, as seen from Stanwell Moor Road, 18th March 2016.

Tails Tuesday 18th March 2025.

Close-up of the black rear fuselage and tail of an airliner taxiing from right to left. The partial registration "-IZK" is visible on the base of the tail, above a large white letter "A" on the rear fuselage. There is a large, white partial mask, designed to cover the upper face, on the tail. Damp concrete apron fills the bottom of the frame in the background, with a grey terminal building behind the tail.

HB-IZK, Saab 2000, CrossAir, in a promotional "The Phantom Of The Opera" colour scheme at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 1996.