MAN 29th December 2021 - Saudi Arabian B787-9 HZ-AR13

 The second of Saudi Arabian's special schemed B787-9s visited Manchester today, sadly in equally poor weather as the last one! HZ-AR13 wears "Year Of Arabic Calligraphy 2021" titles.

MAN 23rd December 2021 - Saudi Arabian B787-9 HZ-ARE

 Making its first visit since acquiring the new 75th Anniversary special scheme, Saudi Arabian B787-9 is seen here slowing down on runway 23 Right on a pretty awful weather day!

Let's hope it returns again soon in the sunshine!

MAN 9th December 2021 - Brazilian Air Force KC390 FAB2855

 A serious contender for movement of the year at Manchester!

 Brazilian Air Force KC390 FAB2855 is seen here taxiing for departure mid morning after making the type's first visit here and the first Força Aérea Brasileira movement I have seen here!

MAN 2nd December 2021 - Vueling / Level A320 EC-MYB

 Making another visit but this time in far better weather than the last, Vueling A320 EC-MYB still wears its basic Level scheme from its past operator.

Landing shortly after was Lauda Air Europe A320 9H-LOW, making its first visit operating a Ryanair service.

MAN 1st December 2021 - Brussels Airlines A319 OO-SSS

 Making the airline's new colours debut here at Manchester on a very dull and damp morning, Brussels Airlines A319 OO-SSS is seen here about to land on 23R  mid morning.

Managed to make up for the dissapointment on the 20th January 2022 when sister ship OO-SSX arrived in much better weather!

MAN 25th November 2021 - Emirates A380 A6-EEU & Air Hamburg E190 Lineage D-AWOW

 A lovely sunny morning and some movements worth photographing at MAN, that's not a common combination! 

Emirates once again sent in A380 A6-EEU in their wacky "Dubai Expo" colours, 

Air Hamburg sent in their new Embraer E190 Lineage D-AWOW for the first time,

Etihad used their "Choose Singapore" B787-9 A6-BLR

Whilst the morning also produced a pair of Star Alliance movements, 

Brussels Airlines A320 OO-SNC .....

.......and Lufthansa A319 D-AILF.

MAN 23rd November 2021 - La Compagnie A321 Neo F-HBUZ

 Arriving on runway 23R on a very dull morning, La Compagnie A321 Neo F-HBUZ was making its first visit to Manchester whilst delivering the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football team for their Champions League game against Man City, 

Embraer ERJ135 PH-DWC was also arriving from Paris in connection with the game.

MAN 15th November 2021 - RAF Avia An.26 YL-RAC

 A fairly rare visitor these days, RAF Avia sent in their last remaining Antonov An.26 YL-RAC on a freight charter, landing on runway 23R mid afternoon.

Glasgow & Prestwick 4th November 2021 - COP26 Trip

 As the interesting traffic was slowing down now we decided on making today our last up in Scotland. Firstly we headed straight over to Glasgow to catch a couple of military bizjets along with the Kenyan special, arriving in time to catch some of the more common traffic.

Loganair Twin Otter G-HIAL taxiing for departure to Barra proudly wearing the Scotish flag colours.

Republic of Slovenia Falcon 2000EX L1-01 arrived and departed again a short time later.

French Air Force Falcon 7X F-RAFB landed mid morning.

Scottish Air Ambulance Beech 200 King Air taxied for departure. 

Nice to catch a Loganair Saab 340 in nice light at such close quarters too.

Star of the morning for us, Kenya Airways B787-8 5Y-KZD arrived from Heathrow and now sports a new special scheme "Come Live The Magic" promoting their wildlife.

Back over to Prestwick for a final look before leaving for home, another US Air Force C17 00-0184 arrived.

Another Cargolux service, this time with B747-400 Freighter LX-SCV landing in the early afternoon.

Our final movement of the trip, yet another US Air Force C17 departed,  01-0186.

Our final day up North netted only nine new numbers but a few more nice photos so we left very happy with what we had caught.

My thanks to Gary for all the driving and to both him and Ashley for their company and all the laughs along the way!

Glasgow 3rd November 2021 - COP26 Trip

Back over at Glasgow just after 2pm to try and catch a few of their afternoon movements, we got lucky with a trio of Boeing 737s

Turkmenistan B737-700 EZ-A007 was parked up quite nicely to get a shot,

Global Express 6000 T7-SSB was parked adjacent to the Turkmenistan.

Royal Jet B737-700BBJ A6-AIN taxied to the ramp.

US Air Force B737-700BBJ (C-40B) 01-0040 landed and taxied to the terminal.

Final shot of the afternoon, Easyjet A321 Neo G-UZMJ arrived from Bristol, nice to see one of these as they are very rare at my local.

With nothing else due we retired for the evening, another good day with some very nice movements to photograph and another seventeen new numbers in the book.

Prestwick 3rd November 2021 - COP26 Trip

 Up very early, we were back on the mound at Prestwick at first light as the majority of the other visitors were due to depart today.

First movement was the regular Air France Cargo B777-200 Freighter F-GUOC departing.

US Air Force C17 01-0192 landed and taxied on to the southern ramp.

State of Kuwait B737-900 BBJ3 9K-GCC arrived from Birmingham and taxied to the northern ramp.

Royal Air Force Bae.146 ZE701 taxied out and departed.

US Air Force C17 01-0197 arrived.

Today's highlight at Prestwick, the departure of Columbian Air Force B767-200 FAC-1202.

Vietnam Airline B787-9 VN-A868 departed 

Cargolux B747-800 LX-VCH arrived on one of their regular services.

State of Kuwait B737-900 BBJ3 departed early afternoon.

US Air Force C17 01-0192 taxied for departure as sister ship 03-3113 arrived.

After a short delay, Ecuador Air Force Falcon 7X FAE-052 finally taxied for departure, the sunshine was very hit and miss by then but we managed to get lucky!!

With nothing else of interest due to move we made a quick run back over to Glasgow to catch their movements.