The ICON A10 Seaplane is an amphibious light-sport aircraft and the successor to the ICON A5.
History[]
The Two Lost Mountains[]
During the period that Anthony "Hades" DeSaxe owned the estate in Alsace-Lorraine, both of his sons, Dion and Zaitan, each ordered a custom-manufactured ICON A10 seaplane. Naming them Sexy Prince One and Sexy Prince Two respectively, Dion and Zaitain used their A10s to travel from the estate to nearby ski resorts in Austria and Switzerland. For whatever reason, when Hades pretended to sell the estate - when in fact he sold it to himself so as to make the estate a private hideaway - the two A10s were left behind.
After Jack West Jr and his team, using the estate as their base of operations after the Trial of the Cities, began departing to start tackling the Trial of the Mountains, David "Nobody" Black went down to the lake to do a flight check on Sexy Prince One so that it could used to take a sub-team to Mont Saint-Michel. When he saw the names painted on the two A10s, Nobody remarked that Hades's sons were jackasses.
SP1 was then flown by Nobody to Tombelaine Island, and he and Hades hid with the seaplane inside an old fishing shack while Jack and Iolanthe used an old undersea tunnel to reach the Mont, though Hades left Nobody and the seaplane on their own once he heard that Dion was at the first iron mountain. When their presence was discovered, Jack and Iolanthe, along with Brother Bertie de Montreuil, returned to Nobody's position, and flew off in SP1.
Though Jack's group planned to head to the second iron mountain next, they returned to the estate after hearing that it had been invaded by Sphinx's people and Easton had been captured by Yago DeSaxe. Following their brief stop to gather the specialised ammunition they'd crafted to penetrate the armour of the bronzemen, Jack had Nobody fly Sexy Prince One in pursuit of Yago's C-5M Super Galaxy. Once the seaplane was close, Alby Calvin remotely hacked the Super Galaxy and opened its rear cargo door mid-flight, allowing Nobody to fly SP1 into the larger aircraft's hold, damaging its undercarriage in the process.
Once the Super Galaxy had been taken and flown towards Aiguille du Midi, Jack and Easton re-boarded the A10 seaplane with four of their new "palemen", and Easton used his Ring of Command to have some more palemen push Sexy Prince One out of the Super Galaxy's hold, and Jack began flying the seaplane on to the second mountain.
Meanwhile, Sky Monster and Pooh Bear, having being presumed killed by the rest of the team, returned to the ruined estate, and took the second A10, Sexy Prince Two, as they set off to reunite with the rest of their teammates.
Wanting to waste no time getting into the second mountain, Jack flew SP1 straight into the Mont Blanc Tunnel at the Chamonix end, with the seaplane narrowly fitting its wingspan into the tunnel. As they approached the door leading to the Hall of the Falling Temple, Jack, knowing they no longer had landing gear, landed the seaplane roughly on the asphalt ground, grinding to a halt by the door. Jack, Easton and their palemen then quickly abandoned SP1 to head into the iron mountain.
Hearing of Jack's presence at Mont Blanc through radio chatter, Sky Monster flew Sexy Prince Two towards Aiguille du Midi, approaching just as Dion sent a missile to destroy the observatory on its peak with Jack and the others inside. As the collapsing observatory started sliding down the slope, Sky Monster maneuvered the seaplane so that it was keeping pace with the observatory, and radioed Jack to urge him to jump across to SP2. Sky Monster kept the seaplane steady as Iolanthe, Nobody and Easton jumped onto the nearest pontoon, while Jack leapt over to Pooh Bear at the side-door. Following their narrow escape, Sky Monster flew the A10 to a nearby mountaintop lake in Switzerland, being gentle with his landing for the sake of those holding onto the pontoon.
The seaplane was then used to transport the group to Dijon so that they could rendezvous with the rest of the team, and once it was decided that they needed to reach Dr Tracy Smith in Aleppo, Zoe Kissane-West took Lynda Fadel and the sleep-struck Lily, Stretch and Kight in SP2.
Once they had met with Tracy and recruited her to wake up the victims of the Siren bells' tone, Zoe's group took Sexy Prince Two on to Jerusalem to meet with Jack's sub-team. What happened to the seaplane after this is unknown.
Attributes[]
As a slightly larger version of the ICON A5, the A10 is capable of carrying more passengers than its predecessor; seating two up front and three-to-four passengers in the back. Presumably like the A5, the A10 boasts a similar design; as a high-wing flying boat-type amphibious monoplane with a carbon fiber airframe and retractable undercarriage, a three-bladed pusher propeller, and wings that can be folded aft for ground transport and storage. Due to being a small aircraft, the ICON A10 can easily both land on and take off from small stretches of water, such as small alpine lakes.
Trivia[]
- The ICON A10 is a fictional creation for The Two Lost Mountains, as the A5 is the only aircraft manufactured by ICON Aircraft.