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A Icon Aircraft Inc A5, the same model family as N59WE
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 9, 2026
N59WE

Icon Aircraft Inc A5

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIndiana

N59WE is an Icon Aircraft Inc A5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Icon A5 35 LLC, an LLC in Shipshewana, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for production flight testing, dated June 22, 2018.

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Aircraft

Maker
Icon Aircraft Inc
Model
A5 · all A5s and related versions
Built of
composite
The airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A carbon-fibre amphibian. This is how the Icon Aircraft Inc A5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
00035
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912 IS · 100 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A79D07 (octal 51716407)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 30, 2023
Expires
November 30, 2030
Last FAA action
November 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Special flight permitFAA airworthiness class code 8 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Production flight testingFAA certificate purpose code 5 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 22, 2018
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01270587

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Icon A5 35 LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 123
Shipshewana, IN 46565-0123

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N59WE links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 912 IS 878 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
Owner
Place
  • Shipshewana, IN 16 aircraft registered in this town
  • Indiana 5,702 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N59WE.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N59WE, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Icon A5 35 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 30, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Special flight permit certificate for production flight testing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 00035 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N59WE according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N59WE: Accident on November 2, 2019 at Chester, CT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

GAA20CA068Accident on November 2, 2019 at Chester, CT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Icon A5 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain a proper approach angle in dark night conditions, which resulted in a collision with treetops and a subsequent hard landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data