Manchester

Photo of the Day 7th March 2025.

mancavgeek

07 Mar 2025 • 1 min read

D-ABHP, Boeing 737-230 Adv, Lufthansa, taxiing to it's gate at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

Frankfurt Friday 7th March 2025.

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage. There is a blue stripe running along the body, just under the passenger cabin windows, , getting wider as it sweeps up into the tail, which is filled with a waving half of the flag of the UK. There are large blue "Air UK" titles on the upper forward fuselage. Large concrete slabs of taxiway fill the foreground, with sandy brown building with blue vertical support beams stretching across the background, with the airfield beyond being swallowed up in mist.

G-UKFB, Fokker F100, Air UK, at Frankfurt Airport, either 1993 or 1996.

Fuselage Friday 7th March 2025.

Close up of the purple rear fuselage of a jet airliner parked facing to the left. There is white text "Welcome To Yorkshire" in the middle of the frame, surrounded by red, yellow, and blue images of bicycles and capital letter "Y"s, all seemingly at random angles. The registration "G-FBEJ" is on the upper rear fuselage, on the right of the frame. There are yellow, red, and white bands wrapped around the rear fuselage. Green grass can be seen in the distance under the plane, with blue sky with hints of grey fluff filling the rest of the frame.

G-FBEJ, Embraer ERJ-195LR, FlyBe, in special "Welcome To Yorkshire" colours, lining up on Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 12th October 2019, as seen from the SouthSide 23Left Hold mound.

(It may be wearing the Welcome To Yorkshire Livery, but this is in the County of Greater Manchester, which used to be part of Lancashire.

And this runway is actually built on land in Cheshire, so… yeah, wrong County!)