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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.

2026-04-20

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 20, 2026

In: Manchester Monday

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

Side view of a long, thin, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is in a pale cream colour, with a gold and red pinstripe running along the body, under the passenger cabin windows. There are large, gold, "Etihad" titles on the upper centre fuselage, with a smaller version in an Arabic script on the upper forward fuselage. There is more Arabic text, in gold, on the lower forward fuselage. There is a large sticker with black and gold text on the upper rear fuselage, with a large black and gold "F1", then smaller text "2016 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix". Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a mobile set of airstairs with a brown perspex awning over the top seeming to drive towards this plane, and a white van driving from right to left by an airbridge on the left of the frame that seems to hang out of nowhere. Low, grey cargo sheds stretch across the background, with several planes parked nose-in towards them. Taller office buildings and hotels nestled in trees are in the distance, under hazy grey sky.

Photo of the Day 18th April 2026.

2026-04-18

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 18, 2026

In: Gat On A Sat, Manchester Monday, On This Day

Tagged: A340, Airbus, AirShow, AvGeek, aviation, B737, BAC111, Boeing, BritishAircraftCorporation, Bulldog, CityHopper, Dublin, EGCC, EGGP, EGKK, EGXI, Etihad, Finningley, FlyOver, FNY, Gatwick, KLM, L13, LGW, Liverpool, London, LPL, MAN, Manchester, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, RAF, RoyalAirForce, Royton, RyanAir, Saab, ScottishAviation, SF340, Speke, Stansted

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner with the engines mounted on the sides of the rear fuselage, taxiing from left to right along a grey taxiway. The plane is mostly white, with billboard-style "Star Alliance" titles on the side of the fuselage, running the length of the body. The engine pods on the rear fuselage are blue, with white registration "OH-BLP" next to a small Finnish flag on the side, with a black square with white text "15 years" on the upper rear fuselage just in front. The black tail has a circle of 5 white and grey arrowheads pointing in different directions. Green grass lines the sides of the taxiway in the foreground, with a grey terminal building stretching across the frame from the left, with several planes parked in front, under pale blue-grey sky.

Manchester Monday 13th April 2026.

2026-04-13

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 13, 2026

In: Manchester Monday

Tagged: A320, Aerospatiale, AhhhDeHaviland, Airbus, AirShow, AS555, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, B717, Barton, Blue1, Boeing, C172, C30, Cessna, Cierva, D120, DeHaviland, DH82, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, Excalibur, Fennec, FrenchAirForce, G115, Grob, Jodel, LancashireAeroClub, LatAvio, LoganAir, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, ParisNice, photography, PierB, planespotting, RAF, Rota, RoyalAirForce, Runway05Left, Runway24, RunwayVisitorPark, SD360, Shorts, SkyHawk, StarAlliance, TigerMoth, TU154, Tupolev, Woodford

Photo of the Day 8th April 2026.

2026-04-08

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 8, 2026

In: On This Day, Photo of The Day

Tagged: A330, Airbus, AirFrance, AirShow, AvGeek, aviation, B747, Barton, Boeing, BritishAircraftCorporation, BritishAirways, Cointrin, Concorde, EGCB, EGCC, EGLF, FAB, Farnborough, G1159, G2, Gemini, Geneva, Gulfstream, GVALSGG, HainanAirlines, L13, LFPO, M65, MAN, Manchester, miles, Orly, ORY, Paris, photography, planespotting, SaudiAeroMedicalEvacuation, T2

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.

2026-04-06

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 6, 2026

In: Manchester Monday, On This Day

Tagged: 504, A310, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirportHotel, AirShow, AirTransat, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, B121, B727, BAE146, Barton, Beagle, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishAirways, CardinalHelicopterService, EAS, 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, Woodford

Side view of a white and black, single engined aerobatic light aircraft parked on grass facing to the left. The plane has black top and bottom surfaces, with a thick white stripe running along the body, and gold piping in between. The registration "G-IITI" is on a thick white stripe on the black tail. There is a large, glazed canopy over the cockpit, with small white "Nigel Lamb" titles on the fuselage immediately behind the canopy. There are also glazed panels in the lower fuselage, under the wings. Black spats cover the wheels on the fixed landing gear. Green grass fills the foreground. A large, red brick hangar is on the right of the frame in the background, with smaller green buildings next to it, towards the middle of the frame. The tail of a white light aircraft and a small, camouflaged helicopter are in the background on the left. Cloudy grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

Photo of the Day 1st April 2026.

2026-04-01

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 1, 2026

In: Photo of The Day, Winglet Wednesday

Tagged: A320, Airbus, AirShow, AvGeek, aviation, B757, BAE146, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishAirways, Cointrin, CrossAir, EA300, EGCB, EGCC, Extra, Geneva, GVA, Jet2, Kloten, L13, LSGG, LSZH, MAN, Manchester, NigelLamb, photography, planespotting, Runway05Left, WingletWednesday, ZRH, Zurich

Manchester Monday 30th March 2026.

2026-03-30

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 30, 2026

In: Manchester Monday

Tagged: A32000, Airbus, AirShow, AirUK, AvGeek, aviation, Avro, B737, Barton, BizProp, Boeing, BritAir, BritishAerospace, C421, Canadair, Cessna, CRJ100, DeHaviland, DH98, Edelweiss, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, F100, Fokker, GoldenEagle, KLM, LancashireAeroClub, LaudaAir, M38, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, Messenger, miles, Monty, Mosquito, PA28, photographyManchester, PierC, Piper, planespotting, RAF, RJ85, RollsRoyce, RoyalAirForce, Runway23Left, Runway24, Saab, SF340, SouthSide, Warrior, Woodford

Side view of a high-winged, 4 propellor-engined military cargo plane parked on a black runway, with the red and white tips of the propellors a spinning blur indicating they are running full tilt, flaps extended from behind the wings, and the rear cargo loading ramp almost fully deployed, with a man wearing olive-green fatigues crouched by the end of the ramp. The plane is covered in an olive-green and grey camouflage scheme, with a blue and red roundel on the rear fuselage, next to the black serial number "VX232". There is a black number "232" on the nose under the cockpit, repeated on the tail, where it is sandwiched between a British flag above, and a red and blue fin flash below. Green grass fills the foreground, with more grass leading up to a tall grey hangar on the left, and a lower blue hangar on the left, with a couple of grey fighter jets in front of the latter. Grey sky fills the rest of the frame.

Photo of the Day 26th March 2026.

2026-03-26

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 26, 2026

In: On This Day, Photo of The Day, Throw Thursday

Tagged: AirShow, Alitalia, ATI, AvGeek, aviation, B787, Boeing, C130, DC9, Douglas, EGCD, EGLL, EssoGarage, Heathrow, Hercules, JapanAirLines, LHR, Lockheed, London, Manchester, photography, planespotting, QueensBuilding, RAF, RoyalAirForce, Runway27Left, SouthernPerimeterRoad, ThrowThursday, Woodford

Side view of a twin engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane is mostly white, with a red and yellow stripe swooping from under the lower forward fuselage and over the wing, with the yellow descending back under the rear fuselage, while the red takes over the rear fuselage and tail, with additional yellow swirls at the top and on the tail. There are red "Hainan Airlines" titles on the upper forward fuselage, in a Chinese script forward if the mid-cabin door, and in English aft of that door. The black registration "B-304K" is on the upper rear fuselage. Grey concrete apron and black tarmac taxiway fill the foreground, with trees stretching across the background under hazy grey sky. In the middle of the background, a green fire training rig, vaguely resembling a 3-engined Boeing 747, is sitting there looking a bit sorry for itself.

Manchester Monday 23rd March 2026.

2026-03-23

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 23, 2026

In: Manchester Monday

Tagged: A330, AdvancedTurboProp, Airbus, AirShow, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, B727, Barton, BN2, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BrittenNorman, CityLine, CzechAircraftWorks, EGCC, F50, FlyIn, Fokker, HainanAirlines, HawkerSiddeley, HS801, Islander, L5, Lufthansa, MAN, Manchester, ManchesterMonday, Manx, McDonnellDouglas, MD87, Nimrod, NorthernAirlines, photography, PierB, planespotting, RAF, RoyalAirForce, Runway23Left, SAS, ScandinavianAirlines, SportCruiser

Front side view of a bright red, high-winged, twin propellor-engined parked facing to the left and slightly towards the camera. The plane's roof and the tops of the wings and engines are a shiny black, and black "British Antarctic Survey" are on the lower forward fuselage under the passenger cabin windows. A door in the rear fuselage is hanging open. Metal skids are mounted on the undercarriage, the wheels poking through the bottom. There is a white board on a wooden easel which has indecipherable text about this plane which partially obscures the nose on the left of the frame. Crowds of people behind a low metal fence are visible in the background, under flat white skies.

Photo of the Day 21st March 2026.

2026-03-21

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 21, 2026

In: Gat On A Sat, On This Day, Photo of The Day

Tagged: A321, Airbus, AirShow, Aurigny, AvGeek, aviation, B737, Barton, Boeing, BritishAntarcticSurvey, C182, Cessna, DeHavilandCanada, DHC6, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, EGKK, Embraer, ERJ190, GatOnASat, Gatwick, LGW, London, Lufthansa, MAN, Manchester, Monarch, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, Reims, Runway08Right, Runway23Right, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, Skylane, TwinOtter, Woodford

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