Date:	Sunday 8 May 1938
Time:	day
Type:	Luton Buzzard Mk II
Owner/operator:	Luton Aircraft Ltd
Registration:	G-ADYX
MSN:	LAB.1
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Great West Aerodrome, Hounslow, Middlesex -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.)
Nature:	Demo/Airshow/Display
Departure airport:	Great West Aerodrome, Hounslow, Middlesex
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
The Buzzard was a single-seat ultralight of wooden construction, fitted with split flaps and an all-flying tail plane, and powered by a 35 hp Anzani inverted Vee air-cooled engine. The Buzzard was designed by C.H. Latimer-Needham, and built by Luton Aircraft at Barton-in-the-Clay, Bedfordshire in 1936. The only Buzzard, registered (C of R 6553) as G-ADYX on 9 November 1935 and designated the Buzzard I first flew in 1936. On 16 November 1936, it was damaged during landing at Christchurch, Hampshire.

In 1937, it was rebuilt as the Buzzard II with short-span wings, enclosed cockpit and an orthodox tail plane. On 8 May 1938, it was damaged beyond repair while being demonstrated at a Royal Aeronautical Society 'garden party' at Great West Aerodrome, Hounslow, Middlesex (the site is the present-day Heathrow Airport). In 1943, the aircraft remains were destroyed when the company's Phoenix Works at Gerrards Cross burnt down.

Registration G-ADYX formally cancelled by the Air Ministry on 1.12.46, probably as a result of a census return to the Air Ministry, who were making enquiries into the continued survival (or not) of all pre-war British registered civil aircraft.

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2. http://afleetingpeace.org/index.php/15-aeroplanes/78-register-gb-g-ad
3. https://cwsprduksumbraco.blob.core.windows.net/g-info/HistoricalLedger/G-ADYX.pdf
4. http://www.airhistory.org.uk/gy/reg_G-A8.html
5. Flight, 13 August 1936, p.190: https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%202237.html and
6. Flight, 13 August 1936, p.191: https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1936/1936%20-%202238.html
7. http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=15664.0
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luton_Buzzard

Luton Buzzard Mk.I (G-ADYX), Barton-in-the-Clay, August 1936:

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
15-Jan-2018 18:49	Dr. John Smith	Added
03-Mar-2020 01:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Source, Embed code]