Date:	Sunday 12 May 2019
Time:	day
Type:	Luscombe 8F Silvaire Observer DeLuxe (Modified)
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	G-LUSI
MSN:	6770
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Location:	Henstridge Airport (EGHS) -   United Kingdom
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Henstridge Airport (EGHS)
Destination airport:	Henstridge Airport (EGHS)

Narrative:
12 May 2019: Luscombe 8F Silvaire Observer DeLuxe (Modified) G-LUSI substantially damaged when overturned in a landing incident at Henstridge Airport, Henstridge Marsh, Templecombe, Somerset. The incident was the subject of an AAIB Record-only Investigation, published on 14 November 2019, and the following is the summary from the AAIB Report:

"After a normal landing" [at Henstridge Airfield] "on the mainwheels the aircraft pitched forward and became inverted".

Damage Sustained to airframe
Per the AAIB Report "aircraft inverted". G-LUSI was repaired and returned to service (with the same owner as before). Total amount of flying hours accumulated on the airframe: 2,473 as at 20 March 2024

Henstridge Airfield (EGHS): The current airfield is operated by Henstridge Airfield Ltd and is an unlicensed airfield. The only usable runway is 06/24 tarmac/concrete 750 m long x 6 m wide. Henstridge radio can be contacted on 130.255 MHz, it can be found at the south eastern stub of the Yeovilton MATZ

1. AAIB Record Only Investigation: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/aaib-record-only-investigations-september-october-2019/aaib-record-only-investigations-reviewed-september-october-2019
2. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/G-LUSI.html
3. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/N838B.html
4. https://henstridgeairfield.com/forpilots/
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAS_Henstridge#Current_use

Built 1951. Previously registered in the United States as N838B. First registered in the UK as G-LUSI on 3 October 1989 to the 1st UK Registered owner. Between 3 October 1989 and 6 September 2011, passed through the hands of six successive UK registered owners.

After the incident at Henstridge on 12 May 2019, G-LUSI was repaired and returned to service (with the same owner as before). Total amount of flying hours accumulated on the airframe: 2,473 as at 20 March 2024

G-LUSI: Luscombe 8F Silvaire Observer DeLuxe (Modified) at "STOL-fest" Leicester Airport, Stoughton, Leicestershire (EGBG) 29 September 2023 G-LUSI: Luscombe 8F Silvaire Observer DeLuxe (Modified) at Keevil, Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1 May 2006

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
27-Aug-2024 05:38	Dr. John Smith	Added
27-Aug-2024 18:27	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Cn, Operator, Embed code, ]