Icon A5 Request For Weight Increase Exemption Status

[Popeye]

http://www.iconaircraft.com/buy-your-icon.html

Alaskan Amber or Fat Tire, please.

You got it! Thanks, once again Icon has managed to bewilder me. I knew the price was going up but the day before the show?

[kmhd1]

You got it! Thanks, once again Icon has managed to bewilder me. I knew the price was going up but the day before the show?

Agreed! I had seen recent posts from Icon on Facebook putting the price closer to $170K which falls in line with CPI-W rates, but $189K is ridiculous!!

They state they are using CPI-W as of July 1st 2013. I checked a few CPI-W calculators on the Internet and using a starting amount of $139,000 and generously picking 2005 and not 2008 as the starting year the CPI-W would put the current price of the A5 at close to $165,000 (again using the $139K as the basis starting amount).

I guess with the extra weight comes an extra fat price as well....

[kmhd1]

Popeye, thanks for the information and the extra research regarding the Part 23 stuff you posted earlier today.

[Eaglerhythm]

Agreed! I had seen recent posts from Icon on Facebook putting the price closer to $170K which falls in line with CPI-W rates, but $189K is ridiculous!!

They state they are using CPI-W as of July 1st 2013. I checked a few CPI-W calculators on the Internet and using a starting amount of $139,000 and generously picking 2005 and not 2008 as the starting year the CPI-W would put the current price of the A5 at close to $165,000 (again using the $139K as the basis starting amount).

I guess with the extra weight comes an extra fat price as well....

Well, I think they told people the price would be somewhere 180,000usd last year at EAA.

[rwanttaja]

Agreed! I had seen recent posts from Icon on Facebook putting the price closer to $170K which falls in line with CPI-W rates, but $189K is ridiculous!!.

$60,000 more than a Sea Rey, weighs 250 pounds more while flying on the same engine. But then, it has a power wing fold and extra flashy lights.

Ron Wanttaja

[Frank Giger]

And cup holders. Can't forget the cup holders.

[kmhd1]

$60,000 more than a Sea Rey, weighs 250 pounds more while flying on the same engine. But then, it has a power wing fold and extra flashy lights.

Ron Wanttaja

And cup holders. Can't forget the cup holders.

Or that new Sonex mini jet, the subSonex, that's about the same price ($125,000).... plus the wings are removable... no cup holders though.

[Bill]

Or that new Sonex mini jet, the subSonex, that's about the same price ($125,000).... plus the wings are removable... no cup holders though.

You'll be too busy having fun in a SubSonex to need cup holders!

[kmhd1]

Well, I think they told people the price would be somewhere 180,000usd last year at EAA.

I was at EAA Airventure last year and spoke to the Icon folks at length. They were still quoting the $139,000 plus CPI price which one of them told me would be in the $160K to $170K range.

Oh well, not like I could have afforded one even at the $139K price anyway....

[rwanttaja]

Or that new Sonex mini jet, the subSonex, that's about the same price ($125,000).... plus the wings are removable... no cup holders though.

It's got cup holders...you just don't recognize them, since they're oriented horizontally 'cause the SubSonex is so fast....

Ron Wanttaja