Manchester

Photo of the Day 19th June 2025.

mancavgeek

19 Jun 2025 • 1 min read

RR299/G-ASKH, De Haviland DH.98 Mosquito T.3, in Royal Air Force colours but owned by Rolls-Royce, at the annual Woodford Air Show, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 19th June 2014.

The white tail has a dark green circle with a lighter green slice in the middle. The black registration "D-AGES" is on the lower rear fuselage next to a small German flag. The engine pods slung under the wings are bright green, with white "FlyGermania.de" text. The white upturned wingtips have that same text, but this time in green. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a larger, blue and white twin engined airliner stretching across the frame in the background, with a sprawling ground-level car park in front of trees in the distance.

D-AGES, Boeing 737-75B, Germania, taxiing out from Terminal 2 to the active runway at Manchester Airport, 19th June 2014, as seen from the top of the Terminal 1 car park.

'Throw Thursday 19th June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a very low altitude, with flaps extended from the rear of the wing and undercarriage lowered, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is mostly white, with gold lines on the forward fuselage and engines suggesting a feathered body. There are 3 wavy gold stripes on the tail, gold "British Airways" titles on the upper rear fuselage, and the black registration "G-DBCB" on the lower rear. Grey cloud fills the rest of the frame.

G-DBCB, Airbus A319-131, British Airways, on final approach to Runway 27 Right at London Heathrow, 11th July 2014, as seen from a mound off Northern Perimeter Road.

'Throw Thursday 2 19th June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with yellow, green, and red diagonal stripes running from the lower forward fuselage to the upper rear fuselage and up into the lower reaches of the tail. There are red "Lithuanian Airlines" on the upper forward fuselage, next to a small Lithuanian flag. The black registration "LY-BAG" is on the lower rear fuselage. The white tail has the red outline of a circle containing a stylised red flying bird. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with wide swathes of grass either side of a black runway in the background.

LY-BAG, Boeing 737-382, Lithuanian Airlines, taxiing past the Queens Building at London Heathrow, some time between May 1998 and July 2001.

'Throw Thursday 3 19th June 2025.

Low side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner flying from right to left at a very low altitude, with flaps extended from the rear of the wings, the undercarriage already stowed away, and the nose raised sharply, suggesting it has just taken off. The plane is mostly white, with a pale blue belly, and light and dark blue "FlyBe" titles on the forward fuselage over a group of 6 coloured dot - 2 each yellow, red, and purple. There are larger "FlyBe" titles on the tail, as well as the website address "www.flybe.com" on the sides of the engine pods under the wings, which also have a pale blue lower section. The black registration "G-ECOP" is on the outer panels of the underside of the left wing. Cloudy grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

G-ECOP, De Haviland Canada Dash 8-402Q, FlyBe, powering out of Runway 27 Left at London Heathrow, 22nd March 2018, as seen from the Esso Garage on Southern Perimeter Road.