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Photo of the Day 8th October 2025.

mancavgeek

08 Oct 2025 • 1 min read

C-8, Fokker F-27-300M Troopship, KLU (Royal Netherlands Air Force), coming in for landing after performing it's flying display at one of the annual Woodford Air Shows, some time in the 1990s.

On This Day 8th October 1996.

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the left. The plane is mostly white, with large, blue, billboard-style "Apollo" titles on the forward fuselage, blue engine pods under the wings, and a blue tail with a black and white image of a person in vaguely Grecian garb. A white set of mobile air stairs is attached to the mid-cabin door just forward of the wing. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with yellowing grass in the background leading off to trees vanishing in to haze in the distance. Flat grey sky fills the frame.

SX-BAZ, Airbus A300B4-203, Apollo Airlines, at Bordeaux Mérignac, 8th October 1996.

On This Day 8th October 2014.

Side view of a high-winged, twin engined jet airliner flying from left to right at a low altitude, with undercarriage extended and flaps deployed from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. The plane is largely white, with a blue belly, and black "British Airways" titles on the lower centre fuselage. The engines slung under the wings are the same dark blue, and there is a twisted dark blue and red ribbon on the upper forward fuselage, behind the cockpit. The tail is white, with a pair of wavy red lines with a wavy dark blue triangle between them. Fluffy white clouds with patches of pale blue sky fill the rest of the frame.

OY-NCN, Dornier 328JET-310, Sun-Air of Scandinavia, operated in British Airways colours, on final approach to Runway 23 Right at Manchester Airport, 8th October 2014, as seen from the railway bridge by Ringway Road.

At one point, this was the only British Airways flight that didn't go to Heathrow - now, we don't even have this much.

Tails Tuesday 8th October 2025.

Close-up of the up- (and down-) turned wing tip of a twin engined jet airliner moving from right to left. The plane is almost entirely white, with the last 2 letters "RN" of the registration on the upper rear fuselage, and grey text "Boeing 737-800" on the lower rear fuselage. The wing-tips are bright orange, with white "Sunwing" titles under a stylised, child-like image of a sunburst. The tail is the same bright orange. Green grass lines both sides of a taxiway in the background, under the tail, with the rear of a yellow sign, and the front of a black sign with yellow letters "VA". Grey sky with pale blue patches fill the rest of the frame.

C-GLRN, Boeing 737-8SH, Sunwing, operating a flight for TUI, lining up on Runway 23 Left for departure, 12th October 2019, as seen from one of the South Side mounds.