The Aviation Society

The Aviation Society The Aviation Society or TAS as it is widely known, is based at Manchester Airport. Please send photo's to:- [email protected]
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It is the largest aviation society outside of London with over 1500 members and 50 years of unbroken experience.

Monday 15th June 2026Naval Air Squadron AH.1 Wildcat ZZ525 dropped into Barton this afternoon en-route to RNAS Yeovilton...
15/06/2026

Monday 15th June 2026
Naval Air Squadron AH.1 Wildcat ZZ525 dropped into Barton this afternoon en-route to RNAS Yeovilton. Photos Simon Edwards

Monday 15th June 2026Mammoth freighters Boeing 777 N703DN was rolled out from STS aviation services for an engine test t...
15/06/2026

Monday 15th June 2026
Mammoth freighters Boeing 777 N703DN was rolled out from STS aviation services for an engine test today, the aircraft is a former Delta Airlines passenger aircraft and has been converted by STS to a freighter with the addition of a side loading freight door. As the engine test bay is unable to accommodate the Boeing 777 it completed the test on taxiway Juliet. Photo by Matthew Ford.

ON THIS DAY - 15-Jun-1982... Manchester Airport, 44 years ago!G-BKAX, BAC One-Eleven 320, British Caledonian Airways.De...
15/06/2026

ON THIS DAY - 15-Jun-1982... Manchester Airport, 44 years ago!

G-BKAX, BAC One-Eleven 320, British Caledonian Airways.

Delivered to Laker Airways in Apr-68 as G-AVYZ. Laker Airways ceased operations in 05-Feb-82 and the aircraft was repossessed by Nordic Finance in early Mar-82.

It was sold to British Caledonian Airways on 01-Apr-82 as G-BKAX. It didn't stay with B.Cal for long though and was sold to OBS Ltd in Sep-83. It was immediately sold on to Okada Air, Nigeria, as 5N-AOT. It was damaged beyond repair in a heavy landing at Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on 07-Sep-89.

Note: The aircraft passed through a heavy downpour on final approach. It entered a high sink rate and made a hard landing. It bounced and made the second touchdown on its nose-wheel.

The right nose wheel sheared off immediately and the left nose wheel fractured at the hub. It crumbled under the weight of the aircraft and detached about 90 meters on. The wheel axle then made contact with the runway and cut grooves onto the surface for about 25 metres before the nose leg finally gave way.

The aircraft continued forward on the nose fuselage section and ran on to the left shoulder of the runway. On the shoulder, it ran into a wide trench which was covered up with loose soil and the impact took off the right main gear at the attachment point.

The aircraft eventually came to a stop 735 meters after touchdown. There were no fatalities among the 88 passengers and 4 crew.

Photo & words by Ken Fielding (from my holiday hotel in C'an Pastilla Mallorca - busy watching aircraft arriving & departing Palma Airport, from my balcony - well someone has to do it!)

Saturday 13th June 2026.Liam McManus caught D-CSGD and D-ANEO during short bursts of sunlight today. Also, G-RAJV, Catre...
13/06/2026

Saturday 13th June 2026.

Liam McManus caught D-CSGD and D-ANEO during short bursts of sunlight today. Also, G-RAJV, Catreus GLEX.

Saturday 13th June 2026.Also from Debbie, FAI rent-a-Jet GLEX D-AFAU, which arrived from Nuremberg and departed to San J...
13/06/2026

Saturday 13th June 2026.

Also from Debbie, FAI rent-a-Jet GLEX D-AFAU, which arrived from Nuremberg and departed to San Jose.

Saturday 13th May, 2026.Debbie Riley was on the RVP Commentary today, and recorded the following 23R arrivals….OK-AST, C...
13/06/2026

Saturday 13th May, 2026.

Debbie Riley was on the RVP Commentary today, and recorded the following 23R arrivals….
OK-AST, Cessna Citation Excel, operated by Air Bohemia, inbound from Alicante.
Scottish Air Ambulance King Air 200C, operated by Gama Aviation, arriving from EGPO. The a/c departed later to EGPD.
SP-FOX, another C56X, operated by Smart Jet International, from London Luton.
D-ANEO, an Airbus A319-135N(CJ), operated by K5 Aviation, which arrived from EDDM and departed to EKCH.
Silver Cloud Air C56X D-CSDG, arriving from Oxford.

Thursday 11th June 2026.Greg Mape was also out in the rain today and photographed Emirates A350 A6-EXS, SAS Embraer 195 ...
11/06/2026

Thursday 11th June 2026.
Greg Mape was also out in the rain today and photographed Emirates A350 A6-EXS, SAS Embraer 195 SE-RSR and just to show how dark and wet it was pictured Citation Latitude CS-LTK on final crossing the A555 for runway 23r.

Thursday 11th June 2026.Simon Edwards braved the rain at Barton today and photographed AgustaWestland AW139 G-DVII of E...
11/06/2026

Thursday 11th June 2026.
Simon Edwards braved the rain at Barton today and photographed AgustaWestland AW139 G-DVII of Executive Jet Charter, SR22 Turbo N747PL which dropped in from IOM for a refuel and passenger pickup before departing to France, & AgustaWestland AW109SP Grand New M-INES which departed this evening.

Wednesday 10th June 2026Simon Willson took advantage of the early evening sunshine during which he caught the departures...
10/06/2026

Wednesday 10th June 2026

Simon Willson took advantage of the early evening sunshine during which he caught the departures of Sun Express Boeing 737, TC-SOI heading to Antalya and Saudia 787-10 starting the return journey to Jeddah.

Wednesday 10th June 2026A change of venue from Manchester saw Simon Edwards heading over to Barton from where he capture...
10/06/2026

Wednesday 10th June 2026

A change of venue from Manchester saw Simon Edwards heading over to Barton from where he captured this image of Airbus Helicopter H145, G-LZZI.

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