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Icon Answers Contract Critics; First Deliveries Next Month
Serial Number 1 may be out there, but Icon knows the real customers are just about to see their airplanes.
Icon A5 S/N 1, which the company is using for tours and demonstrations, is on display at its stand. (Photo: Chad Trautvetter)
Icon A5 S/N 1, which the company is using for tours and demonstrations, is on display at its stand. (Photo: Chad Trautvetter)

Icon Aircraft has made a splash, literally, at Sun ’n’ Fun 2016. The company has one of the most glamorous stands on the flightline, showing off production Serial Number 1 of its A5 single-engine amphibious light sport aircraft line. Communications specialist Brian Manning reiterated that the Icon A5 is just the beginning for the company, which has been promising the industry for nearly a decade that its amphib will be a game-changing light sport airplane.