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 over Lake Berryessa, Calif. (courtesy of Icon Aircraft) Aspiring flyers with a few hundred thousand dollars to spend on the sexiest new light sport airplane got a mixed message from ...

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.

About 20 minutes into my test flight aboard the Icon A5, the cockpit alarm started blaring. The angle-of-attack (AoA) display in front of me, an ingeniously designed gauge that seemed so ...