Icon Aircraft Inc A5
N459BA is an Icon Aircraft Inc A5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Icon A5 70 LLC, an LLC in Shipshewana, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 10, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Icon Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A5 · all A5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 00070
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A593A5 (octal 51311645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Airplane · December 10, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01285894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Icon A5 70 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 123
Shipshewana, IN 46565-0123
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N459BA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Icon A5 70 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 20, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 10, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N459BA according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N459BA: Accident on February 25, 2025 at Smithville, TN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Icon A5 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to retract the landing gear prior to landing in water. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to use the manufacturer’s provided checklist.
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data