ICON A5 Light Sport Amphibious Aircraft

Whether you’re seeking your next adventure or you simply want to reinvent the weekend getaway, the A5 makes flying more exciting and more accessible than ever before.

The A5 reinvents recreational aviation, and lets you bring the exhilaration of flight to life like never before. Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) are targeted to pilots who primarily fly for recreation. LSA are designed to be easy to fly, lightweight, and have low operating costs.

When you step inside you’re not overwhelmed by an army of buttons, knobs, and confusing instrumentation but a simplified flight interface that makes the cockpit of this light aircraft far less cluttered and confusing. Honestly it looks more like the dashboard of a car and not a light aircraft.

Arguably the biggest innovation is this thing called the Angle of Attack indicator — a little gauge that combines multiple flight indicators into a single, simplified display. As long as you keep your Angle of Attack in the “green zone” of the indicator, complicated things like takeoff and landing are drastically easier to pull off — even when you’re landing on water.

Safe and Sound. The ICON parachute safety system has more than 300 documented lives saved, some at altitudes as low as a few hundred feet.

So, does this mean that anybody can hop in the cockpit of one of these light aircraft and start flying right away? Yeah. Pretty much. Technically you have to log about 20 hours of flight time in order to get certified to pilot this light aircraft by yourself — but it’s worth noting that that’s half as long as what’s required for most other single engine aircraft.