Manchester

Photo of the Day 8th June 2025.

mancavgeek

08 Jun 2025 • 1 min read

LY-SPE, Boeing 737-31S, Small Planet, rolling for takeoff along Runway 23 Left at Manchester Airport, 12th June 2014, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.

On This Day 8th June 1992.

Side view of a high-winged, 4 engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly yellow, with various barrel sections of the fuselage and wings and different panels painted in different shades. The engine pods are bare metal, and the rudder on the tail is plain white. The black registration "G-6-209" is on the lower rear fuselage. Green grass lines a taxiway in the foreground, with more grass leading up to trees marking the edge of the airfield in the background beyond that, and rolling hills in the distance, under grey skies.

G-6-209, British Aerospace 146-300, painted in yellow primer to protect it from the elements during test flights before receiving it's final paint job, at Manchester Woodford, 8th June 1992.

The "B"-class registration carried here (Country code - manufacturer - last 3 of the Construction Number) was a far more elegant solution for aircraft test registrations than that used by, say, Airbus or Boeing for their test flight regimes, frequently re-using a handful of registrations for multiple aircraft.

This went to Makung International as B-1778 in May 1994, later serving with UNI Air, National Jet Italia, British Airways, FlyBe, and Efly, before being broken up in 2014.

Bonus Photo of the Day 8th June 2025.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner, taxiing from left to right, following a yellow line on the concrete apron. The plane has grey upper surfaces, with a dark blue belly with a red pinstripe, and dark blue "British Airways" on the upper fuselage. The colours reverse on the tail, with the upper half being dark blue, and grey at the bottom, with a dark blue and red triangle in the middle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, , with a sandy brown and grey terminal building stretching across the background, with a very large, white and brown 4 engined jet airliner with a red and white tail parked facing that building. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

G-BUSG, Airbus A320-211, British Airways, taxiing to the terminal at Zurich Kloten, either 1993 or 1996.