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Photo of the Day 5th October 2025.

mancavgeek

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Side view of a 4 engined jet airliner with the engines mounted in pairs on the rear fuselage, flying from left to right at a low altitude

UK-86575, Ilyushin IL-62M, Uzbekistan Airways, powering out of Runway 24 at Manchester Airport, 27th October 1995, as seen from near the old South Side hangars.

This spot no longer exists, having been buried under 23L/05R when that was built years ago.

On This Day 5th October 1996.

Side view of a 3 engined BizJet taxiing from right to left. The plane is largely white, with a maroon stripe running along the body and up into the tail, and a grey belly. The white registration "A7-AAD" is on the side of the maroon engine pods mounted on the rear fuselage. There are maroon "State of Qatar" titles on the upper fuselage, in English at the front and in an Arabic script towards the rear. A yellow circle with white "State of Qatar" titles in English at the bottom and in Arabic at the top is at the top of the tail. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with grass lining the sides of a black runway in the background. A single engined light aircraft is parked on the grass on the far side of the runway. A large grey building stretches across the frame in the background.

A7-AAD, Dassault Falcon 900, Government of Qatar, at Geneva Cointrin, 5th October 1996.

Bonus Photo of the Day 5th October 2025.

Side view of a high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is very squat and square, painted white over all with a large black, yellow, orange, and red-banded triangle with a feathered bottom edge on the forward fuselage, with black "Jersey European" titles over the passenger cabin windows under the wings, and the black registration "G-BLZT" on the lower rear fuselage, partially hidden by the sponsons carrying the main undercarriage. The multi-coloured triangle logo is repeated in a smaller form on the white tail. Stub wings jutting out from the bottom of the fuselage under the wing carry housings for the main gear to retract into, with a support strut rising diagonally from there towards the midpoint of the wing. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, , with grass in the background, with parked planes in front of a red brick building on the left of the background, under blue-grey skies.

G-BLZT, Shorts SD3-60-100, Jersey European, taxiing out to the runway at Blackpool Squires Gate, 30th April 1993.