Manchester

Photo of the Day 23rd June 2025.

mancavgeek

23 Jun 2025 • 1 min read

G-BUYR, Mooney M20C Mark21, at Manchester Barton, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 23rd June 1996.

Rear shot of a twin engined BizJet parked on concrete apron facing away from the camera. The plane is mostly white, with red and black stripes running along the body, under the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. There are red and white barricades in the background, forming the perimeter of a building site.

V8-007, Gulfstream G-IV, Brunei Royal Flight, at London Heathrow, 23rd June 1996.

Manchester Monday 23rd June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, facing to the left but being pushed back to the right by an out-of-frame tug attached to the nose-wheel by a long yellow pole. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a red strip in the middle with yellow hatching. A grey and white terminal building with heavily glazed sections stretches across the frame, with a dark blue and grey airliner on the right of the frame facing the building. A large grey hangar on the right in the distance is balanced by a large, green, boxy metal frame on the left, under grey-blue sky.

OE-LRC, Canadair CRJ-100LR, Lauda Air, being pushed back from it's gate at Manchester Airport, some time between May 1994 and October 1995.

Manchester Monday 2 23rd June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left in front of a large grey hangar. The plane is mostly white, with a pink and purple stripe running along the body, and black "East West Airlines" titles next to an Indian flag on the upper forward fuselage. The tail has more pink and purple stripes, of varying widths. The black registration "G-IBTZ" is o n the upper rear fuselage. A pair of white cargo loaders are parked in front of a red metal gate in the foreground, with a large grey hangar dominating the background.

G-IBTZ, Boeing 737-2U4 Adv, East West Airlines, parked outside one of the maintenance hangars at Manchester Airport, waiting for delivery to it's new operator, some time in early 1992.

Manchester Monday 3 23rd June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a dark blue stripe with a pale blue pinstripe running along the body, sweeping up to fill the tail, with half a waving UK flag. There are large dark blue "AirUK" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration "G-UKFA" on the upper rear. The main door at the front and the over-wing emergency exits are outlined in a pale blue. Bright sunlight is beating down on wet concrete apron around the plane, in both the foreground and background, with large grassed areas in the background.

G-UKFA, Fokker F100, Air Uk, taxiing the last few metres to it's gate at Manchester Airport, some time between November 1992 and late Summer 1996, as seen from the much missed terraces on the roof of Terminal 1.