ICON A5 - Join the Sport Flying Revolution
Ridge Landing can help you join the Sport Flying Revolution with ICON Aircraft. Residents can contact Ridge Landing staff to order the ICON A5, one of the most exciting air-sea amphibious aircraft ever made. Contact Ridge Landing staff now to order this amazing vehicle.
About the ICON A5
Since the FAA’s dramatic regulation changes in 2004 created the new Light Sport Aircraft category, ICON Aircraft’s sole purpose has been to bring the freedom, fun, and adventure of flying to all who have dreamed of flight. With these ground-breaking FAA rules solidified, ICON believes that consumer-focused sport aircraft can do for recreational flying what personal watercraft did for boating.
ICON’s sport aircraft are not only designed to deliver an amazing and safe flying experience, but also to inspire us the way great sports cars do. After years of development with some of the world’s best aerospace engineers and industrial designers, ICON Aircraft has released the first of its line of sport planes, the ICON A5. The A5 is a bold yet elegant design that communicates beauty, performance, safety, and most importantly… fun.
ICON was founded in 2005 by Kirk Hawkins. Hawkins, a graduate from the Stanford Business School, is an accomplished engineer, former U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, and long-time motorsport enthusiast. With its world-class team of engineers, designers, advisors, and investors, ICON is located in Southern California - home of the world’s largest concentration of both aerospace and automobile design resources. ICON’s engineering and development team came from Burt Rutan’s famed Scaled Composites, which created such record setting projects as Voyager, Global Flyer, the X-Prize winning SpaceShipOne, and Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo.
SPECIFICATIONS
- Seats: 2
- Maximum Takeoff Weight: 1430 lbs
- Useful Load: 430 - 530 lbs (option dependent)
- Baggage: 60 lbs (maximum)
- Fuel (Auto Gas or Av Gas): 20 gal
- Maximum Speed (Vh): 105 kts (120 mph)
- Range: 300 nm
- Takeoff & Landing Distance: 750 ft
- Engine (Rotax 912 ULS): 100 hp
Performance specifications are estimates only.
DIMENSIONS
- Interior Cockpit Width: 46 in
- Wingspan: 34 ft
- Aircraft Length: 22 ft
- Aircraft Height: 7.1 ft
- Trailered Width: 8.5 ft
- Trailered Length: 28 ft
- Trailered Height: 8.3 ft
DESIGN FEATURES
- Folding wings (manual or automatic)
- Retractable landing gear (gear can be deleted entirely to make a pure seaplane)
- Seawing platforms for easy access and docking
- Custom aircraft towing trailer (optional)
- Headlights and floodlights
PERFORMANCE FEATURES
- High-strength, lightweight carbon fiber airframe
- Amphibious design (flies off land and water)
- High-performance wing and airfoil
- Reliable 100-hp Rotax 912 ULS engine
- Runs on auto gasoline or aviation gasoline
COCKPIT FEATURES
- Intuitive, sports car-like cockpit
- GPS moving map
- MP3 in-flight music port
- High-visibility, wrap-around canopy
- Flight with removable side windows
- Multiple storage compartments
- Glass (LCD) multifunction display (optional)
SAFETY FEATURES
- Predictable flying characteristics
- Low stall speed
- ICON Complete Airplane Parachute (optional)
- Patent-pending propeller guard
- Wing Angle of Attack Indicator (AoA)
STANDARD EQUIPMENT
- Retractable landing gear
- Folding wings (manual)
- GPS moving map
- Analog flight instrumentation (per ASTM LSA standards)
