You have your boat people and you have your plane people. Not since the Grumman Goose have the two worlds collided so wonderfully. The same Egg Heads that brought you Spaceship-1 have created the ICON Aircraft.

This amazing light-sport plane lands on water and land, has folding wings to make it easier to store and best of all runs on regular old unleaded gas and/or 100LL (although price wise, I’d go for the regular gas).

According to the marketing speak on their website, this plane holds two people plus 60 pounds of baggage (450 pound useful load), has a range of 300nm and a cruising speed of 105kts. Not too shabby for a light sport plane. It also features an airplane parachute much like the ones Cirrus uses.

Buying one brand new looks to be in the realm of $139,000 and of course that price goes up a bit when you add on various options. I asked Santa for one but he sent me back a dvd of him and all the elves laughing. I guess I haven’t been as good this year as I thought I had.