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Photo of the Day 22nd August 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a single-engined light aircraft taxiing from right to left along a black taxiway.

G-KKES, SOCATA TB-20 Trinidad, Kestrel Aviation, at Biggin Hill, 6th March 1996.

On This Day 22nd August 2013.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner facing to the right but being pushed back to the left by an out-of-shot tug, attached to the nosewheel by a long white pole. The plane is mostly blue, with a white belly. There are red "JetAir" titles on the forward fuselage, followed by "white" fly" titles, and the white registration "OO-JPT" on the upper rear fuselage. The blue tail has a red logo that looks to be a cross between a winking smiley face, and the letters "T", "U", and "I" - this logo also appears on the upturned wingtips. The white engine pods slung under the wings have the red web address "www.jetairfly.com". Grey concrete apron fills the foreground and background, with the white rear fuselage and green and white tail on the right of the frame. A large, ground-level car park is right at the back of the frame, with trees right beyond that.

OO-JPT, Boeing 737-8K5, JetAirFly, being pushed back from it's stand on T2 at Manchester Airport, 22nd August 2013, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

Frankfurt Friday 22nd August 2025.

Side view of a 4-engined jet airliner moving from left to right at high speed. The plane has it's nose-wheel in the air while the main wheels are on the ground, flaps extended from the rear of the wings, and thrust reverser buckets deployed behind the engines mounted in pairs on the sides of the rear fuselage, suggesting the plane has just landed. There is a red stripe running along the body, turning up to fill the rear of the tail., and blue "Cubana" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with the black registration "CU-T1225" on the upper rear fuselage, partially hidden behind the engine pods. Green grass fills the foreground, with several buses parked right at the bottom of the frame. More grass on the other side of the runway leads up to a group of grey and green military transport planes parked in front of cream-coloured hangars. Trees in the distance slowly vanish into the bright but hazy golden sky.

CU-T1225, Ilyushin IL-62M, Cubana, landing on one of the runways at Frankfurt Airport, 16th October 1993.