Manchester

Photo of the Day 1st October 2025.

mancavgeek

01 Oct 2025 • 1 min read

G-BTFX, Bell 206B-2 Jet Ranger II, at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 1st October 1996.

Front view of a 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear fuselage, parked facing to the right of the camera. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue nose cone, dark blue "Malev" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and smaller "Hungarian Airlines" behind it, next to a small Hungarian flag. The rear fuselage and tail is dark blue, with a large green, white, and red triangle in the middle. A set of stairs is next to an open hatch in the planes belly, forward of the wing. A mobile set of airstairs is next to the forward cabin door on the other side of the plane. A couple of white trucks are near the fuselage, behind the right wing. Metal luggage containers on trailers are parked in the background, one of which appears to have fallen partly off the trailer. Green grass either side of a grey runway leads up to trees in the distance.

HA-LCO, Tupolev TU-154B-2, Malev Hungarian Airlines, at Budapest Ferihegy, 1st October 1996.

On This Day 1st October 2015.

Slightly over-exposed side view of a twin propellor engined airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is white, with a thin black and gold stripe running along the body, and the golden registration "D-COCA" on the lower rear fuselage. Green grass fills the foreground, lining both sides of a black runway. Trees fill the background, with a grey house barely visible through the foliage.

D-COCA, Beech 1900D, Private Wings, taxiing out to Runway 05 left at Manchester Airport, 1st October 2015, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

Winglet Wednesday 1st October 2025.

Close-up of the red up-turned wingtip of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is almost entirely white, with a stylised yellow crown and a small Spanish flag next to the blue registration "EC-MLC" on the lower rear fuselage, between the rear of the wing root and the white engine pods mounted on the upper rear fuselage. There are blue "Scandinavian" titles on the sides of the engine pods. Grass lines the sides of the grey runway, with the roof of a grey hangar visible over the top of the fuselage in the background, under blue-grey sky.

EC-MLC, Canadair CRJ-1000, SAS Scandinavian Airlines, lining up on Runway 23 left at Manchester Airport, 5th July 2018, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.