OnThisDay – MancAvGeek

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.

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

Front view of a blue, 2 seat gyrocopter parked facing the camera. The aircraft has no wings, but instead a rotor like a helicopter, but also has a pusher propellor at the rear. The fuselage is dark blue on the top surfaces, with a creamy white belly. It is parked on a small concrete slab surrounded by grass, with a brown wooden fence separating the airfield from parked cars, with tall trees behind, under pale grey skies.

Photo of the Day 12th April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 12, 2026

In: On This Day, Photo of The Day, Schipol Sunday

Tagged: AfricanInternational, AMS, Amsterdam, AvGeek, aviation, B737, B757, Barton, BizJet, Boeing, Britannia, BritishAirways, DC8, Douglas, EGCB, EGCC, EGLL, EHAM, Gyrocopter, Heathrow, LearJet, LHR, LJ35, London, MAN, Manchester, McDonnellDouglas, MD11, MTOSport, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, QueensBuilding, RotorSportUK, Schipol, SchipolSunday, TAGAviation, Varig

Photo of the Day 11th April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 11, 2026

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

Tagged: A321, AerLingus, Airbus, AvGeek, aviation, B737, BAE146, Boeing, BritishAerospace, Dash8, DC10, DeHavilandCanada, DHC8, Douglas, Dublin, EGCC, EGKK, FlyBe, FlyOver, GatOnASat, Gatwick, JMCAir, LGW, London, MAN, Manchester, Meridiana, Munich, Neo, Oldham, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, Runway23Right, RunwayVisitorPark, UkraineInternational

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: 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

A white, twin engined jet airliner flying over head from left to right at a very low altitude. It has it's undercarriage lowered, and flaps extended from the rear of the wings, suggesting it is about to land. There are red and orange "Jet2 Holidays" titles on the lower forward fuselage, and a red and orange sunburst on the blue tail and rear fuselage, as well as on the sides of the engine pods under the wings. Blue sky with fluffs of white cloud fill the background.

Photo of the Day 4th April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 4, 2026

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

Tagged: A321, Airbus, Alpine, ATR72, AvGeek, aviation, B747, BAE146, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishAirways, EGCB, EGCC, EGKK, Flightline, GatOnASat, Gatwick, Jet2, LGW, London, MAN, Manchester, MTOSport, Neo, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, RingwayRoad, RotorSportUK, Runway08Right, Runway23Right, VirginAtlantic

Side view of a high-winged, twin engined BizProp taxiing from left to right. The plane is largely white, with a 2-tone blue stripe running along the body from under the nose, and sweeping up into the lower parts of the tail. The registration N690PK is on the rear fuselage. Green grass fills the bottom of the frame, lining each side of the taxiway, with more grass in the background, leading up to trees in the distance under blue sky.

Photo of the Day 3rd April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 3, 2026

In: Frankfurt Friday, On This Day, Photo of The Day

Tagged: Airbus #A320 #Pegasus #AdriaAirways, ATR72, AvGeek, aviation, B777, BizProp, Boeing, DC10, Douglas, EDDF, EGCC, EGLL, FRA, Frankfurt, FrankfurtFriday, GreatWestRoad, Heathrow, JetAirways, LHR, London, LOT, MAN, Manchester, MyrtleAvenue, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, PolishAirlines, Rockwell, Runway05Left, Runway09Right, RunwayyYVisitorPark, RVP, TurboCommander

Side view of a very large, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from left to right. The plane is mostly white, with a maroon stripe running along the body, covering the lower deck windows, and maroon "Qatar Airways" titles on the forward fuselage, in an Arabic script between the upper and lower deck windows, and in English below the lower deck windows. The tail is also maroon, with the white head of a horned, goat-like animal inside the outline of a white circle. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, with a large grey hangar in the background on the left, several pale blue fuel tanks towards the middle, and a selection of other airport buildings on the right. Trees in the distance slowly vanish into a bright but hazy sky.

Photo of the Day 2nd April 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: April 2, 2026

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

Tagged: AvGeek, aviation, B737, B747, BAC111, Boeing, BritishAircraftCorporation, BrymonEuropean, Budapest, Dash7, DeHavilandCanada, DHC7, Dublin, EGCC, EGLL, Embraer, ERJ190, FlyOver, Heathrow, KLMCityHopper, LHR, London, MAN, Manchester, Oldham, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, QatarAirways, QueensBuilding, Runway09Left, RyanAir, StanwellMoorRoad, Tarom, ThrowThursday

Side view of a light helicopter parked on grey concrete facing to the left. The chopper is mostly white, with red trim around the cockpit and on the tail boom. The tail boom has the white registration "G-UPCC" on the red section. A grey prefabricated building with a blue frame is in the background on the right, while a brown brick building with a grey car parked in front is on the left.

Photo of the Day 31st March 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 31, 2026

In: On This Day, Photo of The Day, Tails Tuesday

Tagged: A300, A321, Airbus, AirIndia, AvGeek, aviation, B7M, Barton, Benson, Beta, EGCB, EGCC, EngineTestBay, MAN, Manchester, Metro, Monarch, MOSI, Museum, MuseumOfScienceAndIndustry, NewAir, OnThisDay, photography, PierB, planespotting, R22, Robinson, Runway23Left, SA226, Swearingen, TailsTuesday

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: On This Day, Photo of The Day, Schipol Sunday

Tagged: AdvancedTurboProp, AMS, Amsterdam, ATP, AvGeek, aviation, B737, BAC111, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerospace, BritishAircraftCorporation, BrusselsAirlines, C210, Centurion, Cessna, Dash8, DeHavilandCanada, DHC8, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, EHAM, EuroDirect, European, MAN, Manchester, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, Runway23Right, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, Schipol, SchipolSunday, TransAvia, Woodford

Side view of a twin propellor-engined, bi-plane, pre-World War 2-era airliner taxiing from left to right on a grass airfield. The plane has a white top half with a grey belly, with a green and black stripe running along the body, and green "Caernarfon Air World" titles on the lower forward fuselage. A man can been seen sitting in the highly glazed cockpit, with a woman staring out from one of the curved, angular passenger cabin windows. A brown brick control tower can be seen in the middle of the background, with a couple of parked light aircraft on the left, and a red fire truck on the right, under flat grey sky.

Photo of the Day 25th March 2026.

By: Manc AvGeek

On: March 25, 2026

In: On This Day, Photo of The Day, Winglet Wednesday

Tagged: AvGeek, aviation, B737, B777, BAC111, Barton, Boeing, BritishAerosopace, BritishAircraftCorporation, CaernarfonAirWorld, Cranfield, DeHaviland, DH89, Dragon, EGCB, EGCC, EGCD, EGGP, Emirates, Etihad, FlyByLight, HandleyPage, HP137, Jetstream, Liverpool, LPL, MAN, Manchester, OnThisDay, photography, planespotting, Rapide, Runway23Left, Runway23Right, RunwayVisitorPark, RVP, SouthSide, Speke, Thomson, WingletWednesday, Woodford