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Side view of a 4 engined military jet submarine-hunter aircraft, parked facing to the right on concrete hard-standings in the middle of a field of gravel, on outdoor display in a small museum. The plane is entirely grey, with a large grey probe extending forward from above the cockpit windows, reaching out of the right side of the frame. The engines are buried in pairs in the wing root, with red covers inside the intakes. A blue pod hangs from a pylon under the right wing. Grey gravel fills the foreground, with metal barriers making a walkway up to a grey set of mobile airstairs parked against the planes main door behind the cockpit. Lush grey sky fills the top of the frame.

Manchester Monday 3rd August 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: August 3, 2026

In: . B737, A320, AdvancedTurboProp, Air2000, Airbus, AirColumbus, AirShow, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, C42, Comco, Cyclone, DC9, Douglas, Manchester Monday, Woodford

Tagged: AviationHall, Club, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, FinnAir, HawkerSiddeley, HS801, Ikarus, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, MOSI, MS880, Museum, MuseumOfScienceAndIndustry, Nimrod, photography, planespotting, RAF, Rallye, RingwayRoad, RoyalAirForce, Runway24, RunwayVisitorPark, ShadowMossRoad, Socata, THT

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Front view of a twin engined jet airliner being towed from right to left, although the white tug doing the towing has turned back to the right, and the plane is slowly turning to follow. The plane is white, with a red and yellow stripe coming from under the forward fuselage, swooping over the wing and back down under the rear fuselage, widening over the wing to fill the rear fuselage and tail. There are red "Hainan Airlines" titles on the upper fuselage, in a Chinese script between the two forward cabin doors, and in English over the wing root. The black registration "B-304K" can be seen on the upper rear fuselage. An intricate yellow and gold flowery design fills the red tale. Grey squares of concrete apron fills the foreground and most of the background, with temporary buildings, white and blue mobile airstairs, and the metal support structure of a new pier under construction in the background.

Manchester Monday 20th July 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: July 20, 2026

In: . B737, A330, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirShow, Archer, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, Boeing, BritishAerospace, Manchester Monday, On This Day, Woodford

Tagged: Compaq, EGCC, EGCD, Fairford, FFD, Gate202, Gate5, Hainan, Harrier, InternationalAirTattoo, L13, LoganAir, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, Manx, MOSI, Museum, MuseumOfScienceAndIndustry, OnThisDay, PA28, photography, PierB, Piper, planespotting, RAF, RoyalAirForce, Runway24, Shackleton, SkyBalloons, Viva

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On This Day 20th July 1996.Read More

Side view of a single-engined light aircraft taxiing from left to right across a grass airfield. The plane is in a metallic grey finish, with red and blue stripes swirling across the body, and the blue registration "G-CDOA", with a red drop-shadow, on the side of the rear fuselage. There is blue and red "EuroStar" text on the engine cowling in the nose, and black text "MainAir Flying School" above a web address and a telephone number on the tail. A large bubble canopy covers the 2 seat cockpit, with an man wearing a black cap and black polo-shirt in the right-hand seat and a woman with curly dark hair in the left-hand seat, looking at him and laughing, both of them wearing a headset and microphone. Green grass fills the rest of the frame.

Photo Of The Day 14th July 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: July 14, 2026

In: AdvancedTurboProp, AirShow, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, B777, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, Cointrin, DC9, Douglas, Photo of The Day, Tails Tuesday, Woodford

Tagged: EGCB, EGCD, EGLF, Etihad, EV97, Evektor, FAB, Farnborough, Geneva, GVA, J61, Jetstream, LSGG, MainAirFlyingSchool, Manchester, photography, planespotting, RJ70, Runway23Left, SAS, ScandinavianAirlines, SouthSide, TailsTuesday

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Tails Tuesday 14th July 2026.Read More

Side view of a white, twin propellor-engined flying from left to right at a low altitude, it's wings banked to the left, with flaps lowered slightly behind the wings, and it's undercarriage stowed away. A bright light is shining forwards about halfway along each wing. The fuselage is mostly white, with a thin blue, red, and orange stripe running along the body from the nose, gradually getting wider as it moves rearwards, until the blue sweeps up to fill the tail. The number "227" is on the lower forward fuselage in large black print, with the much smaller registration "G-JATP" on the lower rear fuselage. Grey cloudy sky fills the rest of the frame.

Photo of the Day 8th July 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: July 8, 2026

In: . B737, A300, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirbusTransportInternational, AirShow, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, BAE, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, C212, On This Day, Photo of The Day, Woodford

Tagged: AvioCar, Casa, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, EGLF, FAB, Fairford, Farnborough, Galopin, IAT, InterntaionalAirTattoo, L13, MAN, Manchester, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, Rallye, RyanAir, Socata, SwedishCoastGuard, T1

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On This Day 8th July 1995.Read More

Side view of a white, twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left, along a grey taxiway. The plane has red "Jet2DotCom" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and the black registration "CS-WFP" just aft of a small Portugese flag on the lower rear. The tail is a deep blue, with a stylised number "2" made up of red, mint green, and light blue sections. The engine pods mounted under the wings are the same deep blue as the tail, with the up-turned wing-tips are the same mint green as in the number on the tail. A strip of green grass stretches across the foreground, with a grey cargo building stretching across the background with a grey and red jet airliner parked in front on the right. A couple of grey buildings with hotel logos on top are visible over the top off that building, with trees beyond them, under hazy grey skies.

Manchester Monday 8th June 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: June 8, 2026

In: . B737, A330, AdvancedTurboProp, AerLingus, AirAtlantis, Airbus, AirportHotel, ATP, ATR72, AvGeek, aviation, BACExpress, BAE146, Boeing, BritishAerospace, Manchester Monday, On This Day, Woodford, World2Fly

Tagged: EGCC, EGCD, F50, Fokker, GillAir, Jet2, L13, L5, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, ManxAirlines, OnThisDay, photography, PierB, planespotting, Runway24, SD360, Shorts, TransAvia

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On This Day 8th June 1992.Read More

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right along a grey taxiway. The plane is largely white, with light and dark blue "Air Transat" titles on the upper forward fuselage, with the black registration "C-GOIM" on the upper rear. The tail and rear fuselage are light blue, with a diagonal silver band separating the blue and the white. The outline of a large silver star adorns the tail. Large grassed areas and grey taxiways fill the foreground, with rolling grey hills in the background, under blue-grey sky.

Photo of the Day 17th May 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: May 17, 2026

In: A321, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirHolland, AirShow, AirTransat, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, B757, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishMidland, DeHaviland, DH89, Dragon, On This Day, Photo of The Day, Schipol Sunday

Tagged: EGCC, FighterMeet, London, MAN, Manchester, Neo, NorthWeald, OnThisDay, photography, photographyAmsterdam, planespotting, Rapide, Runway23Left, RunwayVisitorPark

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Front view of a twin engined BizJet taxiing from right to left towards the camera on a wide grey taxiway. The plane is mostly white, with a green squiggle with a grey drop shadow running from under the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, forwards along the body under the passenger cabin window, then up between the cockpit windows and the main door, then rearwards again, over the top of the cabin windows, stopping about half-way along the body S similar strip runs from the bottom left to top right of the tail. There are a pair of bright lights shining in the wing root, creating a slight flare in the image, and causing bright reflections on the fuselage. A large grey and blue hangar dominates the background on the left, with cloudy grey sky filling the rest of the frame.

Manchester Monday 20th April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 20, 2026

In: A300, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirShow, AirXCharter, Anson, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, Avro19, B767, Barton, BizJet, Boeing, Bombardier, BritishAerospace, BritishAirways, Challanger, DC10, Douglas, Manchester Monday, Woodford

Tagged: CheapAir, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, F27, Fokker, KLU, L1011, L5, Lockheed, MainAir, MAN, Manchester, Monarch, Nipper, PeachAir, Pegasus, photography, PierC, planespotting, Quik, RoyalNetherlandsAirForce, Runway23Left, Runway24, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, SouthSide, T66, Thomson, Tipsy, TransLift, TriStar, Troopship

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Rear view of a squat and boxy, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner facing slightly to the right but mostly away from the camera. The plane has a grey upper half and dark blue lower, with a thin red pinstripe on the lower fuselage, ending in a half arrowhead at the front. There are black "British Airways Express" titles on the upper forward fuselage. The top half of the tail are dark blue, with a large grey heraldic crest in the middle. The lower half is grey, with a dark blue and red triangle at the rear. A group of people, some wearing bright yellow hi-viz jackets, are clustered around the left rear of the plane. Grey concrete apron fills most of the background, with A pair of white airbridges hanging off the side of a grey building on the left of the frame, and a larger jet airliner wearing the same livery nosing into frame from the right.

Manchester Monday 6th April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 6, 2026

In: 504, A310, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirportHotel, AirShow, AirTransat, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, B121, B727, BAE146, Barton, Beagle, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishAirways, EAS, Manchester Monday, On This Day, Woodford

Tagged: CardinalHelicopterService, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, EuropeAeroService, F27, Firefly, Fokker, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, Manx, OnThisDay, photography, PierB, PierC, planespotting, Pup, RFC, RoyalFlyingCorps, RoyalNetherlandsAirForce, Runway24, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, S76, SD360, Shorts, Sikorsky, Slingsby, T1, T67, Troopship

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Side view of a twin propellor-engined airliner flying from left to right at low angle with the undercarriage retracted and only a small amount of flaps from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is doing a flypast as part of a display routine. The plane is mostly white, with black "EuroDirect" titles on the upper forward fuselage, and an enormous, black, lower-case letter "e" , tilted slightly on it's side, on the rear fuselage. The tail is yellow, with a large, black, lower=case letter "e" in the middle. Grey sky fills the background.

Photo of the Day 29th March 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 29, 2026

In: . B737, AdvancedTurboProp, AMS, Amsterdam, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, BAC111, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishAircraftCorporation, BrusselsAirlines, C210, Cessna, Dash8, DeHavilandCanada, DHC8, On This Day, Photo of The Day, Schipol Sunday, Woodford

Tagged: Centurion, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, EHAM, EuroDirect, European, MAN, Manchester, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, Runway23Right, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, Schipol, SchipolSunday, TransAvia

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Side view of a single engined light aircraft taxing from right to left across a grass airfield. The plane is a silvery grey, with a black and red stripe swirling it's way along the body, and the black registration "G-CGVT" on the lower rear fuselage. There is black text "Mainair Flying School", alongside a telephone number on the rear half of the tail. Metallic grey spats with black and red stripes cover the wheels on the undercarriage. Two people can be seen in the cockpit through the comically oversized bubble canopy. Green grass fills the foreground and most of the background, with trees on the airfield perimeter, rolling hills in the far distance, and blue sky at the top of the frame.

Photo of the Day 24th March 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 24, 2026

In: Abbotsinch, AdvancedTurboProp, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, B175, Barton, Britannia, BritishAerospace, BritishAirways, BritishOverseasAirwaysCorporation, Cosford, DUS, Dusseldorf, On This Day, Photo of The Day, Tails Tuesday

Tagged: BOAC, Bristol, EDLL, EGCB, EGCC, EGPF, EGWC, EuroStar, EV97, Evektor, GLA, Glasgow, L1011, Lockheed, LTU, Lufthansa, MainAirFlyingSchool, MAN, Manchester, McDonnellDouglas, MD11, Museum, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, RAFMuseum, Runway23Right, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, TailsTuesday, TriStar

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