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Location: 12511 Beatrice Street, Los Angeles, California 90066, United States

United States

Founded in: 2005
Stage: Not applicable
Number of employees: 16-30
Short URL: vator.co/icon-aircraft

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Krassimir Piperkov
Finance and Strategy Manager, ICON Aircraft

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ICON Aircraft

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Check out our newest video and give us a "like". We want to hit 10,000 fans today! :-) https://www.facebook.com/iconaircraft?sk=app_161090693951490 on May 06

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Want to see what it's like to pilot ICON Aircraft's A5? Check out our most recent video for a cool new perspective on the A5 flying experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-aZTi8bY3Q on January 21

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ICON and Audi USA partnered to host the prizewinner of the The Tony Stark Challenge for a day. The winner got to live a day in the life of Tony Stark - spending the day with the ICON team during flight testing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxo6qbi-biI on January 09

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We flew formation with the A5 last month and captured some cool photos from angles we’ve never shot before. Take a look: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=246172&id=49155994261&fbid=450629174261&ref=mf on November 12

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ICON Aircraft is sponsoring AOPA's Block Party this year at the Long Beach Convention Center Friday night. We'll have our show model on display from 6 PM - 10 PM, so come join us if you're in the LA area. The Block Party will be located at 1st & Pine. See you there! on November 12

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Follow this link to our most recent company newsletter for an update on ICON's achievements in Engineering, Manufacturing, Media and Sales as well as a recap of ICON at Oshkosh 2010: http://www.iconaircraft.com/newsletter6.html on October 19

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Check out the article on ICON in the Entrepreneur Magazine: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217187 on October 19

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Follow this link to view some recent coverage of the A5 and a great interview with ICON's Kirk Hawkins and Steen Strand on New York Nightly News: http://www.youtube.com/user/ICONA5#p/u/0/TJVihpXaHEo on May 18

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Company description

ICON Aircraft has developed the first recreational aircraft designed specifically for the mass consumer market. Disruptive regulation changes in 2004 safely and dramatically lowered the training time and ownership cost for consumer aviation by more than 50%. These new regulations enable ICON to address the enormous, latent demand for personal aircraft from a broader consumer demographic than previously possible. The company's first product, the ICON A5, is an amphibious, trailerable, two-passenger sport aircraft with folding wings. Since the public unveiling in the summer of 2008, the company has received more than 375 orders, representing $60M in backlog. ICON has conducted over 100 flight and hydro tests to date. With market and technology risk minimized, ICON is ready to enter production.

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Kirk Hawkins
CEO / Founder, ICON Aircraft

Before graduating from Stanford Business School in 2005 and founding ICON, Kirk flew F-16s in the U.S. Air Force and 767s for American Airlines. Prior to the USAF, he worked in both aviation and aerospace engineering most of his early career. After earning his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University, he was the Director of Engineering at an aerospace contractor before returning for his Masters in Engineering from Stanford University in 1995, specializing in manufacturing.

Kirk grew up racing motocross and has been an avid sport and flying enthusiast for 25 years. He has built and flown ultralight and experimental aircraft, and has logged nearly 1000 skydives. Kirk is also a seaplane instructor pilot with hundreds of hours bush flying in Alaska. Today he is an active snowboarder, wake-boarder, and SCUBA diver, as well as a devoted member of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America for more than 10 years.

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