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Photo of the Day 26th May 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a cream-coloured, twin engined light aircraft parked on grass facing to the left.

G-BOZP, Beech 76 Duchess, at Manchester Barton, 26th May 1996.

Manchester Monday 26th May 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The planes body is grey, with dark blue text "www[dot]CityStarAirlines[dot]com"on the lower fuselage below the wings, and larger "City Star Airlines" under the cockpit.. The engine pods are dark blue, with white stars towards the front. The tail is the same dark blue, with a larger grey and white star, with grey and white "City Star" titles underneath. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with part of it partitioned off by metal fences set into red and white concrete blocks. A grey, 2 storey building with a white "Airfield operations Safety Unit" sign stretches across the frame from the right, with white vehicles with a banded orange and yellow stripe running along the body.

TF-CSB, Dornier 328-110, City Star Airlines, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester Airport, 22nd January 2006, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

Manchester Monday 2 26th May 2025.

Side view of a 3 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the rear of the fuselage, taxiing from right to left as it turns from a taxiway on to a runay. The plane is mostly white, with an orange stripe running along the lower body, and a red belly. There are small, black "Aviogenex" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The tail is red, with a stylised white letter "A", with a reflection below. A black chain-link fence stretches across the bottom of the frame, with people standing around, some looking at the plane. Green grass on the far side of the runway leads off to trees in the distance, under grey skies.

YU-AK*, Boeing 727-200, Aviogenex, turning on to Runway 24 by the Airport Hotel pub at Manchester Airport, some time in the 1990s.

Manchester Monday 3 26th May 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has a white body, with a blue belly, and a red pinstripe overlaid with blue and red "Augsburg Airways" titles. The tail is dark blue, with a red upper-case letter "A" leaning to the right, with the white outline of a circle behind it. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with grass either side of a black runway in the background leading up to a wide black hangar that stretches across the frame, with a white BizProp parked in front.

D-BIRT, De Haviland Canada Dash 8-102, Augsburg Airlines, taxiing out to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, some time between 1996 and 2000.

Bonus Photo of the Day 26th May 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left on a black runway. The plane is almost entirely white, with a grey and green stripe swooping over the wing root. There are green "Amelia" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and the black registration "F-HOXY" on the upper rear. The foreground is filled with green grass, with a red sign with white numbers "27-09" in the middle and the yellow letter "G" in a black square outlined in yellow in the centre of that grass. Trees fill the background, with hills rising into hazy grey skies in the distance.

F-HOXY, Embraer ERJ-145LR, Amelia International, landing on Runway 09 at Liverpool John Lennon, 11th March 2025, as seen from the viewing area on Viscount Drive.