Photo of the Day 4th August 2025.

Photo of the Day 4th August 2025.
Front view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined, very short, squat, and boxy airliner parked on tarmac facing to the left of the camera.

LX-JUL, Shorts SC-7Skyvan 3M-400, Hunting Aviation, at Fairford International Air Tattoo, 22nd July 1995.

On This Day 4th August 1996.

Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a grey belly, and black "TowerAir" titles on the side of the forward fuselage, the letter "A" represented by a black diagonal line followed by an orange right-angled triangle. This is repeated diagonally on the tail, with the black diagonal line and orange triangle used as a logo on the sides of the white engine pods slung under the wings. There is also a small US flag at the top of the tail, and the black registration "N609FF" on the upper rear fuselage. A fenced-off building site fills the foreground, with trees stretching across the background from the left, and a series of black hangars on the right of the frame, with flat grey sky over everything.

N609FF, Boeing 747-121, Tower Air, operating a flight for Saudi Arabian Airlines, taxiing out to Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 4th August 1996, as seen from the roof of the T1A car park .

Or was it T3 by then?
Hmmm…

Manchester Monday 4th August 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white with a grey belly and black "Portugalia" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The black registration "CS-TPF" is on the upper rear fuselage, in front of the engines which are mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. A pair of diagonal stripes, one red, one green, are on the side of the side of the forward fuselage, in front of the wings. Smaller versions of these stripes appear on the grey tail, overlaid with a yellow circle.  Grey taxiway fills the foreground, with a wide strip of grass in the background separating it from another taxiway, with more grass and a low cream-coloured building beyond that.

CS-TPF, Fokker 100, Portugalia, taxiing to the terminal at Manchester Airport, some time after December 1994.