GA flourished when regular Joe’s could afford to buy an airplane. The highest production year for C 172’s was 1979 when they made more than 3000. In today’s dollars the 1979 C 172 went for $118,000. Today a C 172 cost $ 415,000…
It was practical useful and affordable. There will never be high volume production of specialty toy airplanes, the ICON model can never work