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Just put my deposit in for the four blade prop, VG and updated POH/GW. Excited to see the difference!

Original prop only has about 120 hours on it. Any market for a used one or is it a really nice wall ornament?

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I know of at least 10, plus 2 people that would be willing to give theirs away. Might be able to find someone with a searay project.
Great to hang it above your bar?

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Just put my deposit in for the four blade prop, VG and updated POH/GW. Excited to see the difference!

Original prop only has about 120 hours on it. Any market for a used one or is it a really nice wall ornament?

Check in with Matt Oxender at Great Lakes. He does ICON repairs and might be interested. Also ask ICON themselves if they're willing to take the 3-blade as a discount against the 4 - they do repairs, etc., and might be able to use it.

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Not much value for the 3 blade other than what was mentioned being a wall ornament.

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Sold mine for about 1K on eBay

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Sold mine for about 1K on eBay

Makes sense. Did you have to dismantle it for shipping, or did they pick up?

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I had to dismantle it - and then shipped it as two separate boxes.

Charged them $50 for shipping and it think it was actually $54

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Now you can’t use it as a wall ornament.

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My office wall will look great with all my failed/upgraded parts. Time for a montage board like they do with old iPhones.

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I was all ready to mount it onto my hanger exterior wall - complete with LED strips on the backside of each blade for a shadow effect at night. I think my wife believed I had exhausted my "LED accent light" allocation on our house. And neighbors aren't all that happy 'bout a hanger in the neighborhood anyway.

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What a great and very visual story!!!! My new Hangar 50' by 90' will be my man-cave. It will house my planes and low-ground-clearance cars. I think I am going to invite Michael to be my interior decorator and LED Enhancer!

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After a major electrical failure and more in our turbine Lancair, we had to land without the nose gear fully locked out (we got the mains, but the shop had installed the wrong nose gear strut and it wasn't strong enough to lock that out). That left me with a prop and hub combo, minus the last 6-8 inches of aluminum on the two blades that it came to rest on and skidded down a couple thousand feet of runway in place of the nose gear (it was quite an awkward angle to sit at in the plane, too, like a 20 degree descent attitude). It was a free turbine and I killed the engine on final and glided it to the landing, saving the engine because it wasn't running, and the free turbine couldn't strip any gears, etc. even with the prop suffering the embarrassment of runway rash.

I thought that would be a great outdoor art installation at our fly-in community, outside our hangar that has an apartment in it, an a patio. The developer hated it. I don't know why, I think just because he was being a jerk towards me (among many others). Everyone else seemed to think it was pretty cool (the two damaged blades I put on the bottom and buried down far enough to hide the damage, with the third, good blade sticking straight up). That hub and prop assembly is way to heavy to wall mount (84" diameter all aluminum prop plus the hub), so ground-mounting was my only option.

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I am assuming all were safe and emotionally recovered from the experience?

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Absolutely, I even kept it on the runway the whole time. Didn't even cost a lot to fix (for the insurance company anyway, most of it was in the deductible I had to pay) but the shut down saved everything but the prop/hub and two corners of the front gear doors that scraped and had to be rebuilt. I had coms and time to pick an airport with a long runway and to let them get the commercial planes out before I circled down to land (I had them roll the trucks but not put down any foam or anything like that) and it was a non-event, quickly towed free. I had to rent a car and drive to a meeting a couple hours away (we landed in Naples, on the way from Key West to Orlando for a meeting), so I was late for the meeting, otherwise it was all just a story to tell later.

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Great presence of mind under pressure! Glad everyone is safe.

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Stories are good, as long as there’s a happy ending. Sounds like you handled it well. Probably better than most would have