The first visit of an Aeroflot A350-900 occurred this afternoon when VQ-BFY arrived from Moscow to take Manchester United out to Istanbul for their Champions League match against Istanbul Basaksehir.
The weather was pretty awful with heavy rain and terrible light, all fairly normal for Manchester though I guess!
Departing back to Chongqing early morning in pretty awful weather, Hainan Airlines B787-9 B-1540 wears the special "Hainan Free Trade Port" scheme.
Blue Islands operated their ATR42 G-ISLH this morning instead of the usual ATR72, seen here taxiing out and departing a very wet and murky Manchester.
A long weekend away with my Wife down in the South West allowed a couple of new airports to be added to my log book, Our route took us past Newquay and Lands End with a few photos grabbed along the way.
Newquay is not good for the photographers as there are no spots that allow close up views of the stored airliners sadly, the following were just record shots taken from the fenceline on the Saturday evening.
Finally making a return visit to Manchester after a very long time and coinciding nicely with some sunshine AND a day off for me!
Etihad B787-9 wears the stunning Formula One scheme and is seen here landing just before midday on their service from Abu Dhabi.
An evening run over to Durham / Tees Valley (Teesside) International to catch a very rare UK movement, Fiji Airlines B737-700 DQ-FJF was arriving for parting out / scrapping having made the long journey from Nadi (Fiji) via Honolulu, Los Angeles & Bangor, sadly it landed just after sunset meaning it was almost dark!
Another run down south to London Heathrow to catch a few more required subjects including the superb LATAM Star Wars special saw the following pass me in the warm sunshine over the course of the day.......
The sun wasn't quite up for the arrival of the Gulf Air 787-9 A9C-FE or the ACT Cargo B747-400 Freighter TC-ACG sadly,
Finally managed a couple of my targets in the sunshine today!
HiFly Malta A330 9H-TAJ was ferrying in empty to operate the usual PIA Pakistan International flights, seen here landing 05 Left early afternoon.
Arriving at nightfall on a very dull and rainy Liverpool, MyWay Airlines (Georgia) B737-800 4L-BQJ was delivering Dinamo Tbilisi to play against Connah's Quay in the Europa League qualifier.
An early morning run over to Doncaster in the hope of catching the very rare IL62 Freighter EW-450TR of RADA Airlines after it arrived late last night, as there was no known departure time I thought I would take the gamble, luck was on my side as it departed shortly after 11am with the sun still shining!
It taxied out past the pair of Oil Spill Response B727's (three classic airliners in one shot!) before departing off runway 20 with a wonderful roar ..... the first IL62 I had seen flying for over eight years, the last being a Rossiya example at Heathrow way back in 2012!
