Icon Aircraft

While the National Transportation Safety Board does not normally determine a probable cause for an aircraft accident for months, or sometimes years after an event, the preliminary report the Board released of a July 11, 2019, accident involving an Icon A5 made it clear the pilot did not understand how to calculate the airplane’s actual […]

Icon Aircraft said Friday it is implementing a revised business plan for the unique LSA seaplane that includes a 40 percent cut to the company’s current workforce. Icon president and COO Thomas Wieners said, “Icon is currently structured for higher volume production, but after producing more than 100 aircraft, we now have a very good […]

Just as ICON Aircraft was celebrating the delivery of its 100th airframe last week came news on Friday that an A5 had crashed during a takeoff attempt in Littlefield, Michigan. This brings to five the number of aircraft involved in accidents and or incidents in 2019, including one that crashed just short of Chicago Executive […]

Flying low and slow seemed normal to me in my early flying career, having been lucky enough at 25 to own my own Aeronca Champ. The little taildragger—“a bag of rags,” one of my buddies called it—allowed me to enjoy the world from “just above” while flying along at a blistering 95 mph. But the […]

The pilot and a passenger of an Icon A5 light sport amphibian suffered minor injuries after the airplane flipped in the water upon landing, apparently with the gear in the down and locked position. The mishap happened on Okanagan Lake in West Kelowna, British Columbia, on Monday. Video and photos of the aftermath show the […]

Potential customers walking into Prestige Imports in North Miami Beach, Florida, will get a surprise as there will be one vehicle with wings on display among the Lamborghinis, Bugattis and Ferraris. Icon Aircraft has partnered with the high-end car sales distributor to bring its amphibious A5 light sport aircraft to a new, high-net-worth audience. “Our […]

At its annual State of the Industry press conference in Washington, D.C., the General Aviation Manufacturers Association released the General Aviation aircraft delivery numbers for 2018. For the first time in five years, all segments of the industry showed increased numbers. GAMA’s chairman and Gulfstream’s president Mark Burns announced an overall increase of 4.7 percent […]

Icon Aircraft says it’s launching a fractional program for the A5 light-sport amphibian called Icon Fleet Access that is designed to allow easier and lower-cost ownership options. Icon announced a beta test for the managed fractional program at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh that will kick off this fall ahead of the official rollout of Icon Fleet […]

Although it will take the National Transportation Safety Board many months to conclude its investigation into the fatal crash of former Major League pitcher Roy Halladay’s Icon A5 on Tuesday afternoon, an eyewitness to the crash told Flying that the light sport amphibian was performing aggressive, low-level maneuvers that he described as “aerobatics” before it […]

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, a two-time Cy Young Award winner who retired from baseball nearly four years ago, died in a crash of an Icon A5 light sport amphibian in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida Tuesday afternoon. He was the only one aboard, according to the Pasco County Sheriffs office. Halladay, […]