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As 2025 wraps up the first Icon A5s (ASN 001-016 I believe) will be coming up on 10 years of age in 2026. I recently heard back from Icon about the 10-year inspection plan, and it they had good news to share! They are in the process of removing the calendar-based inspection requirement and plan to move into a 2000 hour interval requirement instead. Manuals are still pending but keep an eye out for this change.

"Our analysisdetermined that the 10-year requirement was originally a conservative measurebased on limited long-term data available at the time. With the additional dataand analysis now available, we have concluded that the calendar-basedrequirement can be removed. The inspection will now be based solely on the2,000-hour interval, supported by fatigue analysis and the material propertiesof the adhesive.Please notethat the overhaul process is still under development. We will update ourwebsite and maintenance manual as these changes are implemented."


I know there are a handful of you in this group that helped make this happen, so THANK YOU!

Happy Flying!

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That is good news. Thanks for sharing.

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Thx Zack and congrats!

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That’s good news for making that policy post mosaic ASTM standards ?

However, makes it more difficult for a flight school to amortize the cost life of the equipment for flight schools to purchase some ?*??

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I just appreciate all the work Alex and Jen (Aero Capitol Exchange) on this issue. It’s been a huge unknown for owners for the longest time. I know from 787 carbon fiber construction, their were a lot of conservative useful life number thrown around, and once planes started approaching the mark, analysis revealed parts had much more life in them. Glad ICON is realizing that too.

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Anyone know the current head count at ICON USA? Don't want to harsh the buzz, but while I understand PRC buying on the way-cheap a US composite aircraft manufacturer and tools to learn how to manufacture composite light aircraft (and drones), I don't see them making a big effort to produce and then market or support foreign sales for a $500k++ (before tariff) water toy. Hope I'm wrong.

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Last I heard from the rumor mill was 13 US employees, might actually be less now. most in sales and maintenance. Could just be a rumor an inaccurate, but I had it on decent authority about Oshkosh timeframe. When I worked there we had twice that many just in the engineering department.

Also lets be clear they didn't buy on the cheap, they were the ~60% owners of company and the holder of the majority of the debt. They wiped out the board and current shareholders through the BK process then forgave their own dept which drove the company into the BK in the first place. An inappropriate use of the BK process through and through.