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“The successful completion of the FAA’s audit of the A5
is one of the most critical milestones in our company’s
history,” said ICON Aircraft CEO and Founder Kirk
Hawkins. “This means that after years of intense
development by the ICON team, our customers and the
media will finally get a chance to experience the A5
firsthand and form their own opinion. We believe we
created one of the safest, easiest to fly, most fun, and
coolest light aircraft on the planet, and this is just
the beginning for us. ICON’s mission is to help reinvent
flying by making it more accessible to all those who
dream of it. It’s a very personal, heartfelt mission for
our team, so this is another proud moment along that
journey.”
“Given the years of work to get here, it’s awesome to
finally see production-ready, conforming A5 aircraft in
serial production,” said ICON Chief Technical Officer
Matthew Gionta. “For me and much of the team, the A5 was
the most challenging aircraft program we ever worked on.
Balancing the complexities of this aircraft’s design
with ICON’s extraordinary standards of quality and
usability was a monumental challenge. It’s hard to fully
appreciate the massive amount of intelligence and hard
work that has gone into this little consumer aircraft;
it’s a truly amazing airplane. I’m looking forward to
our customers flying it and appreciating that effort
firsthand.”
ICON Aircraft is a consumer sport plane manufacturer
founded in response to the sport flying category
created by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
in 2004. ICON’s first plane is the A5, an amphibious
sport aircraft that fuses outstanding aeronautical
engineering with world-class product design. It has
won some of the world’s most prestigious design
awards and has inspired a global following. The
company has received more than 1250 order deposits
and has manufactured the first production aircraft.
ICON Aircraft’s facilities are in
Southern California, a hotbed for
automotive design and aerospace engineering.
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