If Icon should falter, however, it won’t be because of the quality of the aircraft’s fit and finish. This story appeared in the June/July 2020 issue of Flying Magazine Share this story ...

Icon Aircraft, a Vacaville-based manufacturer of a two-seat seaplane designed to be easy to fly, picked Jason Huang to lead its operations, which have expanded in recent years beyond California ...

Icon Aircraft will christen a new factory in Tijuana, Mexico, to produce composite airframes for the A5 light sport amphibian, ... final aircraft assembly, testing, and final delivery.

Icon Aircraft's A5 final assembly facility is located in Vacaville, California. (Photo: Icon Aircraft) Share. Post. Share. Print. Copy. Email. By Matt Thurber • Editor-in-Chief. July 27, 2019.

ICON will receive major composite structural assemblies from these suppliers and will control all system installation, final assembly, finishing, and testing prior to delivery, with A5 production ...

ICON Aircraft will be opening a factory in Mexico later this year.The company announced Wednesday it is building a 300,000-square-foot facility in Tijuana where composite airframe components for ...

Icon Aircraft's forthcoming A5 light sport aircraft could practically eliminate the risk of spin/stall, a major cause of general aviation accidents. Skip to main content. SECURITY.

The ICON A5 is an amphibious light-sport aircraft (LSA) that inspires recreational pilots, handling water landings with full (30-degree) flaps. It was first flown in 2008, and production began in ...

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 ...

Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why researchers have come up with a flexible ...