MAN 28th August 2021 - Malta Air B737-MAX8 9H-VUF

 Finally the waiting paid off, a lovely sunny morning greeted a Malta Air B737-MAX8 at Manchester for the first time since they started operating the Saturday Bergamo flight four weeks ago.

9H-VUF seen here about to land on 05 Left

MAN 22nd August 2021 - Air Baltic's "Lithuanian" A220-300 YL-CSK

 Making its Manchester debut on their twice weekly Riga service, Air Baltic A220-300 YL-CSK wears this great looking special scheme in the colours of the Lithuanian flag.

MAN 22nd August 2021 - Turkish "Turkey" A330-200 TC-JNB

 Making its first visit to Manchester since acquiring this special scheme promoting the Turkish Olympics & Paralympics teams, A330-200 TC-JNB is seen here arriving on 23R on a very dull morning. The aircraft wears differing schemes on both sides.

MAN 21st August 2021 - Vueling A320 EC-MYB

 Making its first visit back to MAN since rejoining the Vueling fleet, A320 EC-MYB wears this interesting hybrid scheme following its time with fellow IAG airline Level.

Sadly the weather was pretty awful for its arrival early afternoon.

MAN 20th August 2021 - Icelandair B737-MAX9 TF-ICA

 Making the debut visit of a B737-MAX9 to Manchester, Icelandair's TF-ICA is seen here about to land on 23 Right on their first service back here since the start of the Covid pandemic began.

Heathrow Visit - 2nd & 3rd August 2021

 A two day visit down south saw us spend plenty of time at Heathrow along with side visits to Farnborough and Oxford. The following passed by the camera lens along with a lot of the run of the mill traffic ....

We set off early morning on the 2nd in order to catch the Brunei Government B767-200 V8-MHB arriving just after 06.00,

We also managed the weekly Vistara B787-9 in some early sun,

China Eastern sent in A330-200 B-5902 in their special "Greenland Group" scheme

with Air Canada's B787-9 C-FVLQ in the special "Olympics" scheme.

Etihad B787-9 A6-BND wears the great looking Manchester City colours.

Sky Express have recently started serving LHR with their A320 NEOs,

SX-NIG operating this afternoon.

The morning of the 3rd saw overcast skies sadly although SAS A330 LN-RKU was a nice treat.

Iberia used A330-200 EC-MJA in their special "Madrid" scheme.

LOT with their B737-MAX8 SP-LVD in the special Polish Independence livery 

and Brussels Airlines A320 OO-SND in the superb "Smurfs" colours!

A great couple of days away with another 52 new numbers in the log book along with a few new subjects caught by the camera.

My thanks to Gary and Ashley for their great company along the way.

MAN 18th July 2021 - HiFly A330-900 CS-TKY and SAS CRJ900 ES-ACK

 A couple of movements worthy of photographing on a lovely sunny evening, HiFly A330-900 Neo CS-TKY was arriving from Birmingham to operate the PIA Pakistan International service to Lahore ....

whilst Xfly CRJ900 ES-ACK was operating the evening SAS Stockholm service albeit sadly running around 45 minutes later than scheduled meaning the sun had weakened a little. The CRJ is one of a few now sporting the new SAS colour scheme.

Chester / Hawarden 14th June 2021 - Airbus Beluga XL F-GXLI

 A nice sunny morning and an en-route A330-700 Beluga XL tempted us over to Chester / Hawarden for the first time in a few years. I had been waiting for the chance since the XL version entered service quite some time ago!

F-GXLI seen here about to land on runway 04 late morning.

MAN 7th July 2021 - Air Baltic A220-300 YL-CSL

 Making its second visit on the airline's new Riga service, A220-300 YL-CSL wears this great "Latvian Flag" scheme, seen here taxiing past the Viewing Park after landing on 23R

6th July 2021 - St Athan, Cardiff, Kemble & Brize Norton day trip.

 A run out to catch the two Air Mauritius A319s that had recently arrived at Kemble saw us visiting a few extra airfields along the way.

We left home just after 4am and made our way straight to St Athan to catch up with a few airliner frames before the axe man had his way with them. Twenty seven numbers were logged including a few inmates at the museum which I hadn't previously visited. Nothing was worth photographing due to positions or schemes, a lot of the stored airliners were lacking any colours!

We then moved on for a quick stop at Cardiff however on hearing that there was an Air Zena (Georgia) CRJ200 due in with a football team we decided to hang around for the arrival to grab some shots. 4L-TGB duly arrived just after 11am.

We headed on to Kemble, arriving there just after 1pm and managed some fairly decent shots of the Mauritian 319s 3B-NBF and 3B-NBH. 

Kemble added only nine numbers this time around but the above certainly made the visit worthwhile!

We headed home via a quick stop at Brize Norton where another nine military transports bolstered the numbers in the book making a total of forty seven for the day, not a bad haul!