Reckitt Benckiser CEO Joins ICON’s Board of Directors

LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2011 -

ICON Aircraft announced that Bart Becht, CEO of Reckitt
Benckiser, will join ICON’s board as a non-executive director.
 Becht also participated in ICON’s recently closed series C
round of financing as a key investor, bringing international
perspective and nearly 25 years of business experience to ICON.

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In September, Bart Becht is retiring from his position as CEO of
Reckitt Benckiser, the U.K.-based consumer goods company whose
pounds Sterling 8.5 billion annual revenue would place it at number
176 in the Fortune 500 if it were traded in the United States.
 Becht holds an MBA from The University of Chicago and worked
at Procter & Gamble before joining Benckiser in 1988.
 Becht has been CEO of Benckiser since 1995 and oversaw the
firm’s 1999 merger with Reckitt & Coleman to form Reckitt
Benckiser.  During Becht’s tenure, the firm has experienced
tremendous growth, and he has been recognized in the Harvard
Business Review as one of the world’s top 20 shareholder
value-creating CEOs.

“We are thrilled to have Bart Becht join our board of
directors,” said Kirk Hawkins, ICON’s CEO and founder. “His global
business expertise is truly world class, and his experience will
prove invaluable as we bring the ICON A5 to market.  Having
him participate as an investor also represents a significant vote
of confidence in ICON’s team and the ICON A5 sport aircraft.”

Bart Becht joins a distinguished board of directors including
Mastercraft Boats CEO John Dorton, Asurion founder and former
chairman Jim Ellis, founder and former CEO of Eclipse Aviation Vern
Raburn, and the former head of Nike in Asia, Satyen Patel.

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ABOUT ICON AIRCRAFT:

ICON Aircraft is a consumer sport plane manufacturer founded by
Kirk Hawkins and Steen Strand while at Stanford University shortly
after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) enacted regulation
changes in 2004 that created the new sport flying category.
 Kirk is an engineer, former U.S. Air Force F-16 fighter
pilot, and graduate of Stanford Business School. Steen, a former
investment banker and Harvard graduate, holds a Masters in
Engineering from Stanford in Product Design and is a serial
entrepreneur. A privately funded company, ICON Aircraft’s base of
operations is in Southern California, which is a hotbed for
automotive design and aerospace engineering.

ABOUT FAA LIGHT SPORT AIRCRAFT &
SPORT PILOT CLASSIFICATIONS:

In 2004, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) created a new
classification of easy-to-fly and affordable two-person planes
called Light Sport Aircraft that enable a new classification of
Sport Pilots to fly in uncontrolled airspace during the daytime and
in good weather. The Sport Pilot License focuses on the
fundamentals of flying and requires a minimum of 20 hours of
in-flight training, which is half the time and cost of a
traditional Private Pilot License. The Experimental Aircraft
Association (EAA) described the new rules as “the biggest change in
aviation in 50 years.”

Candice Jacobson, +1-562-881-4683, cjacobson at leaderenterprises.com