But for Kirk Hawkins, the 48-year-old CEO and founder of Icon Aircraft ... million-dollar plane, after two wonderful flights in an A5’s passenger seat, I’d be first in line to get one ...

On the shore of Lake Isabella, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, a crowd of flight techs, most of them either pierced or tattooed, swarms around a small white airplane. It's called an Icon A5.