Incident Lockspeiser LDA-500 G-UTIL, Friday 16 January 1987
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Date:Friday 16 January 1987
Time:22:45
Type:Lockspeiser LDA-500
Owner/operator:Private
Registration: G-UTIL
MSN: PFA/1346
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Old Sarum, Wiltshire (EGLS) -   United Kingdom
Phase: Standing
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Old Sarum, Wiltshire (EGLS)
Destination airport:-
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
Ex-G-AVOR; registration changed to G-UTIL 12/8/1986. Destroyed 16/01/1987; a fire in at the manufacturing plant of Edgley in Hangar 1 at Old Sarum airfield destroyed several EA-7 Optica planes as well as a Lockspeiser LDA-500 (G-UTIL) and Druine D.31 Turbulent G-ARBL.

Sources:

Flight International
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=60&pagetype=65&appid=1&mode=reg&fullregmark=UTIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockspeiser_LDA-01
http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1975/1975%20-%200753.PDF

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
02-Jan-2009 11:39 harro Added
20-May-2013 16:53 Dr. John Smith Updated [Operator, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative, ]

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