Manchester

Photo of the Day 3rd October 2025.

mancavgeek

03 Oct 2025 • 1 min read

LN-NGV, Boeing 737-8JP, Norwegian Air Shuttle, powering out of Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 13th march 2017, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

On This Day 3rd October 1996.

Side view of a small, 3 engined jet airliner in military colours taxiing from left to right. The plane is white on top with a thick blue stripe running along the body and a grey lower fuselage, with red "Yak-40" titles under the cockpit. The red serial "037" is on the bottom of the tail, with a 2*2 grid of red and white squares, outlined in red and white, at the top. The engine pods mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage are grey, while the centre engine intake between the top of the fuselage and the tail is white. Grey apron fills the foreground, with more apron filled with various white and blue jet airliners in the background, with a pair of red and white striped lighting poles stretching into the sky. Green grass lines runways, stretching out into the distance.

037, Yakovlev Yak-40, Polish Air Force, at Warsaw Okecie, 3rd October 1996.

Bonus Photo of the Day 3rd October 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right. The plane is dark grey on the top half of the body, and dark blue of the bottom half, with a red pinstripe just under the passenger cabin windows, ending in half an arrowhead under the forward fuselage. There are black "British Airways" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the grey registration "G-AZPZ" just forward of the engine pods on the rear fuselage. The tail is dark blue at the top and grey at the bottom, with a dark blue triangle at the top rear of the grey part, and a diagonal red stripe below that. A grey heraldic crest is in the middle of the dark blue part at the top. Grey concrete apron and green grass fill the foreground, with more grass in the background leading up to a grey runway in the distance.

G-AZPZ, British Aircraft Corporation 1-11-515FB, British Airways, taxiing out to the runway at Birmingham Airport, 8th May 1993.