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ICON Aircraft is a privately held American aircraft design and production company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Guest Speaker: Bringing The "Sport" Back To Flying (Kirk Hawkins) )〕 It is currently working on the production of the ICON A5, an amphibious light sport aircraft that is scheduled to begin customer deliveries in July 2015. ==History and financing== ICON Aircraft was founded in response to the 2004 Federal Aviation Administration establishment of the light-sport aircraft (LSA) class of aircraft and Sport Pilot certificate class of pilot. Kirk Hawkins and Steen Strand founded the company in 2006.〔 Hawkins had previously flown F-16s〔 in the United States Air Force and Boeing 757s for American Airlines. Strand's background is in product design, marketing, and finance, and he founded Freebord, a skateboard company. The two met at Stanford University in a Product Design class in 1993.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Being ICONic )〕 A proof of concept aircraft was built in 2007-2008, and made its first flight in July 2008.〔 The company publicly launched the A5 in Los Angeles at a private event on June 11, 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ICON Aircraft Launches New Amphibious Sport Plane )〕 ICON has also acknowledged the possibility of releasing additional models in the future, but maintains that it will focus on the light-sport aircraft market.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://iconaircraft.com/faq-icon-aircraft-the-company.html )〕 From 2008 to 2014, the proof of concept aircraft flew more than 700 development flights, and the construction of the first production aircraft began in early 2014. It made its first flight in July 2014 and the company has announced that the first customer deliveries are expected in May 2015.〔 ICON Aircraft has completed four rounds of equity financing. It completed its A round in June 2006 and its B round in July 2008. A $25 million C round was closed in June 2011() and a $60 million D round was announced in June 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「ICON Aircraft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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