ICON bankrupt
 

Probably the only airplane I have NOT wanted to own. Worst of both worlds of a boat and a plane.

Maybe if you had two lake houses and wanted to fly between them it would be useful? I'm not sure what the target market or mission was other than a few rich persons plaything.

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Agree, would much rather have what you got. Doc, triglycerides 400. What’d you do about that? Asking for a friend:)

Apparently the original poster hasn't flown a Lake Amphibian, or any other amphib. Or seaplane.

I wasn't impressed with the Chinese sale.

Icon pushed to market their airplane as car-like, much as Cirrus, and up-scale and up-price in a way that may have missed a wider target market. They also had a weird, cliquish thing going within the company; all instructors and demo pilots were military buddies; a closed kind of group that brought a different dynamic to the operation which was not necessarily in harmony with general aviation.

Personally if I wanted a flying boat, it would need to be big enough to camp in. Otherwise floats would be fine, and potentially more flexible. That's just me though.

Floats, and especially a hull ("flying boat") do offer advantages in a single engine airplane, in the even tof a power loss and subsequent off-field forced landing. The Icon does one better with a ballistic parachute. Options.

It also has the decided advantage, when flying over water as a single engine piston airplane, of choices in a forced landing that aren't available to land-airplanes. Airplanes with a hull tend to be a bit more aerodynamic than floats on land airplanes, thus faster and less draggy.

Better off getting a high wing and just using something like this:

https://www.wingtents.com/product-page/wingtent

A camping boat wouldn't fly well, and a nice flyer won't have room to sleep. Same reason we won't have a nice flying car anytime soon.
I guess I applaud the ambition.

the bro network didn’t work out this time. After all the people they killed surprised it took this long.

You'e never flown one, have you? Any hulled aircraft? Seaplane? Nothing flies like your Cessna, is that it? Do you sleep in that? How is it relevant, or important?

I was in the Navy, I like boats.

Grandad flew PBY's in the war.

Maybe could get a microcarrier to camp/sleep on, with a 300 foot catapult for a cessna 152. Best of both worlds.
You'd have to teach your wife to be the LSO though. Or develop MAGIC THROWRUG system. ;)