We’re roughly 1,000 feet above New York’s Hudson River in Icon’s new A5 airplane, the Manhattan skyline rolling past on our left, the Statue of Liberty dead ahead.

But Icon Aircraft, a California start-up, has orders to deliver 2,000 of its new amphibious airplanes over the next few years, and nearly half of the purchasers do not have a pilot’s license.

After almost a decade of anticipation, research and development, rigorous test flights, and $100 million in costs, Icon Aircraft, a consumer plane manufacturer based in Vacaville, California, has ...

There are a lot of exceptional things about the Icon A5 beyond the light sport aircraft’s spin-resistant frame. The other wonderful things have been said so much that they are now cliches.

This 2022 ICON A5 has 195 hours on the airframe and on its 100 hp Rotax 912iS engine. The aircraft is equipped with a four-blade propeller upgrade. Its VFR panel features Garmin G3X avionics and ...

The innovative Icon A5 is designed to make anyone a pilot. Take a look inside the company and the development of an airplane created by an F-16 pilot and a skateboard designer.

US aerospace company Icon Aircraft expects the Federal Aviation Administration will certificate its A5 amphibian as a “primary category” aircraft by late 2021 – a milestone the company says ...

Loaded with features like folding wings (so you can keep it in your garage) and seat belt-like parachutes (so you can ease the whole thing down to the ground), ICON Aircraft's new light sport ...

Prior to hopping inside the Icon A5's cockpit, I had never set foot inside a single-engine aircraft -- let alone flown one. But thanks to some amazing design and technology, this plane is somehow ...