The ICON A5 is an amphibious light-sport aircraft (LSA) that inspires recreational pilots, handling water landings with full ...

Designed to make flying simple, the Icon A5 has been described as a sports car with wings that maneuvers like a Jet Ski. Designed to make flying simple, the Icon A5 has been described as a sports car ...

We soar above the new Tappan Zee Bridge spanning the Hudson River just north of Manhattan, in no particular hurry as the dramatic, canted towers drift below us. We’re flying—not at transonic speeds ...

When it comes to piloting a plane, I have zero experience. In fact, I’ve never even considered attempting it. Nevertheless, as we swoop over Florida’s Tampa Bay on a gorgeous November morning, I ...

These aren’t words you want to hear from your pilot, but moments after Genesah Duffy speaks them, a bleating alarm fills our Icon A5 aircraft. Though Duffy is in control, I’m sitting in the pilot’s ...

From up in the air, the landscape around the Historic Triangle is a vast swathe of greens and blues, dotted with houses and trees and intersected by the James River. Some call this bird’s eye view the ...

Having been to numerous airplane launches, I can tell you with extreme confidence that it’s unusual for the CEO of an aviation company to show up to a press event in flip-flops. But for Kirk Hawkins, ...

Pilots interested in tacking on a seaplane rating or simply having a go at the controls of the striking Icon A5 light sport seaplane with minimal buy-in have a new option in central Florida, the ...

Now (just about) any idiot can fly a plane with very little instruction. Are we all doomed? Or are we all going to have a blast? The new ICON A5 is not just a new airplane, though it is a really cool ...

The Icon A5 seaplane glides over the George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey with Manhattan, high enough to keep drivers from getting nervous, but low enough that I can distinguish the colors ...