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Photo of the Day 18th May 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a white, high-winged, single engined light aircraft parked in a hangar facing to the right, with it's engine cowling in the nose removed, exposing it's engine.

G-GHST, Comco Ikarus C42, under-going engine maintenance in one of the hangars at Manchester Barton, 29th July 2024.

On This Day 18th May 1996.

Side view of a white, 3 engined jet airliner, flying from right to left at a very low altitude, it's main wheels just a couple of metres above a black runway. Flaps are extended behind the wings, and the nose is raised significantly, suggesting it has just taken off. There is a red, orange, and yellow circle on the forward fuselage, just behind the cockpit, with ared, orange, and yellow stripe coming from the bottom of that circle, heading backwards over the wings, then turning up into the tail, with orange "Sun Country" titles overlaid over the wings. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass in the background leading up to trees in the distance, under grey sky.

N573SC, Douglas DC-10-10, Sun Country, taking off from Runway 06 at Manchester Airport, 18th May 1996.

On This Day 18th May 2023.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left and slightly away from the camera. The plane is mostly white, with purple, magenta, gold, and white diagonal bands around the rear fuselage, and a purple tail with a stylised gold and purple lotus flower in the middle. There are purple "Thai" titles next to a smaller version of that lotus logo on the upper forward fuselage. There is a set of white mobile airstairs parked by the open mid-cabin door. A yellow metal barrier stretches across the bottom of the image, with the bit on the right split down the middle so it can retract back to allow access. The wings of another couple of airliners are at the bottom of the frame, a seriously curved up-turned white wing-tip with a green, yellow, and red triangle on the outer face on the left, and a blue, somewhat straighter up-turned wingtip with a smiley face logo coming in from the right. A large grey hangar dominates the left of the image, with a duck-egg blue fuel storage tank on the right, with trees in the background behind them.

2-STBA, Airbus A330-343, Thai Airways, in long term storage outside one of the maintenance hangars at Manchester Airport, 18th May 2023, as seen from the top of theT1 car park.