The only current Savannah price we could verify is a US dealer's: ICP Aircraft lists the Savannah SR from $129,900, with common options. It is a dealer starting price for one model, not a maker list price and not a price for every Savannah, so the real cost of the airplane depends on the one you buy.
The Savannah is a light sport airplane from the Italian maker ICP, sold built and as a kit, and it has no FAA type certificate. That changes what a page about it can say. There is no certified specification sheet to quote, so this page is built from the FAA register and the NTSB accident files alone: 70 aircraft on the US register, 74.3% of them owned by individuals.
What follows looks at the price we found, the fleet, how it is owned, what it costs to run and what the NTSB files record. Every figure comes from a named public source, and the sources are listed at the end.
Data used: FAA fleet through 2026-10-16; NTSB file through 2026-09-30.
What a Savannah costs: one dealer number
ICP Aircraft, a US dealer, lists the Savannah SR from $129,900 on its model page, with common options. That number is a starting price. It is not the maker's MSRP, it is not an asking price for a particular airplane, and it does not stand for every Savannah S or every kit. Equipment, taxes and delivery change the total, so confirm the price for the airplane you want with the dealer.
A kit is a different purchase again: you pay for parts and your own labour or a builder's, and the register cannot tell kit-built airplanes from factory-built ones under the same name. Our guide to the Zenith 701 kit, another short-field light airplane, shows how that kind of cost is counted.
A name with many labels
The register has no single Savannah label. It has 30 aircraft entered as the Savannah S, 10 as the VGW, 7 as the VG and 11 with no suffix at all, plus smaller groups such as the 3 listed as the SR. Grouped by name, the S accounts for 33 aircraft and the VG for 17, 16 fewer. The unspecified group, 15 aircraft, collects the plain Savannah and maker-name variants. We also count the label "I C P SAVANNAH", which appears on 1 valid aircraft.
The scope here covers every aircraft the register labels as a Savannah, built by ICP or by an individual builder. Other ICP and Czech designs with similar names, such as the Skyleader, the Ventura and the Sparrowhawk, are separate airplanes and are left out. For where the airplane sits among the rest, the guide to the main types of planes helps, and our bush plane guide covers the larger short-field airplanes.
A small fleet, owned by individuals
The FAA register lists 70 Savannah aircraft, and 67 of them (95.7%) hold a valid registration, with 3 carrying another status. Of the whole family, 56 records have a usable build year and 55 of those are valid, while 14 records have a blank or malformed build year. That counts paperwork, not airplanes in the air: a valid registration says nothing about whether the aircraft is airworthy or flying.
- 122000s
- 222010s
- 222020s
14 records have a blank or invalid build year and are left out of the chart.
The 2010s and the 2020s, still running, each account for 22 aircraft, against 12 from the 2000s. There is no sourced earliest year for the type, so the decades are provisional.
Individuals hold 74.3% of the register, and that is the headline of the fleet: it is owned by people, not companies. LLCs hold 15.7%, co-owners 5.7% and corporations 4.3%. The registry records the owner category, not how the airplane is used.
Texas (12.9%) holds the most registrations, 2 more than Florida (7). Ohio and Wisconsin follow with 5 each. The state field is the registrant's address, not where the aircraft fly.
Download the fleet CSV by model and build year. Free to use, please link back. It counts all registrations and valid ones (status V) by model label and build year, including blank years, and contains no personal records.
Show the fleet tables
| Group | All registrations | Valid (status V) | Share of all registrations |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAVANNAH UNSPECIFIED registry labels | 15 | 15 | 21.4% |
| SAVANNAH OTHER registry labels | 5 | 4 | 7.1% |
| SAVANNAH VG registry labels | 17 | 16 | 24.3% |
| SAVANNAH S registry labels | 33 | 32 | 47.1% |
| Model label | All registrations | Valid (status V) |
|---|---|---|
| SAVANNAH S | 30 | 29 |
| SAVANNAH | 11 | 11 |
| SAVANNAH VGW | 10 | 9 |
| SAVANNAH VG | 7 | 7 |
| SAVANNAH SR | 3 | 2 |
| SAVANNA S | 2 | 2 |
| I C P SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| ICP SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| ICP SAVANNAH S | 1 | 1 |
| MPX-740/SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| SAVANNAH ICP | 1 | 1 |
| SAVANNAH T | 1 | 1 |
| SKYKITS SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| Build decade | All registrations | Share of known years | Valid (status V) | Valid share of known years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 12 | 21.4% | 12 | 21.8% |
| 2010s | 22 | 39.3% | 21 | 38.2% |
| 2020s | 22 | 39.3% | 22 | 40.0% |
| FAA code | Registrant type | All registrations | Valid (status V) | Share of all registrations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Individual | 52 | 49 | 74.3% |
| 3 | Corporation | 3 | 3 | 4.3% |
| 4 | Co-Owned | 4 | 4 | 5.7% |
| 7 | LLC | 11 | 11 | 15.7% |
| 2 | Partnership | 0 | 0 | No records |
| 5 | Government | 0 | 0 | No records |
| 8 | Non Citizen Corporation | 0 | 0 | No records |
| 9 | Non Citizen Co-Owned | 0 | 0 | No records |
| State | All registrations | Valid (status V) | Share of all registrations |
|---|---|---|---|
| TX | 9 | 8 | 12.9% |
| FL | 7 | 7 | 10.0% |
| OH | 5 | 5 | 7.1% |
| WI | 5 | 5 | 7.1% |
| TN | 4 | 4 | 5.7% |
| UT | 4 | 4 | 5.7% |
| AZ | 3 | 3 | 4.3% |
| CA | 3 | 3 | 4.3% |
| CO | 3 | 2 | 4.3% |
| LA | 3 | 2 | 4.3% |
Show every exact FAA model label
| Model label | All registrations | Valid (status V) |
|---|---|---|
| SAVANNAH S | 30 | 29 |
| SAVANNAH | 11 | 11 |
| SAVANNAH VGW | 10 | 9 |
| SAVANNAH VG | 7 | 7 |
| SAVANNAH SR | 3 | 2 |
| SAVANNA S | 2 | 2 |
| I C P SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| ICP SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| ICP SAVANNAH S | 1 | 1 |
| MPX-740/SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| SAVANNAH ICP | 1 | 1 |
| SAVANNAH T | 1 | 1 |
| SKYKITS SAVANNAH | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 70 | 67 |
The price is only the entry fee
After the purchase the airplane wants fuel, an engine fund, an inspection, insurance and somewhere to sleep. For the Savannah we found no verified published number for any of them, because the register mixes factory-built and kit-built aircraft that have different inspection rules and different engines.
Fuel and the engine
We did not find a fuel-burn figure or an overhaul interval we could verify for the whole family, so the calculator leaves both for you to fill in. Use the figures for your own engine and your own flying. The way a small airplane's fuel reaches its engine is covered in types of aircraft fuel systems, and how aircraft engines differ explains the families a light sport airplane's engine belongs to.
The rest
Insurance, hangar or tie-down fees, labour rates and loan terms depend too much on the owner, the airfield and the airplane for one published number to mean anything, so this page prints none. Add your own quotes and you have a budget that belongs to you. More on the wider costs of owning an aircraft sits in our ownership section, and what it costs to buy a small plane in general is in what a small plane costs.
Renting is the benchmark your own figure has to justify. Our guide to how much it costs to rent a Cessna 172 shows the other side of the ledger for a trainer.
What the accident files record
Every entry in the NTSB files is a real event, and the counts are all this page claims to know about them. The NTSB lists 17 accidents involving Savannah aircraft from 2007 through 2025. 3 of them were fatal, 17.6% of the record, and 4 people died. The fleet is small, and the files do not say which accidents involved factory-built airplanes and which involved kits.
- 2000
- 2005
- 2010
- 2015
- 2020
- 4
- 22025
Counts only. The NTSB does not record how many hours the family flew, so these bars are not rates.
The highest yearly count is 4, in 2023, and 3 were recorded in 2014. With numbers this small, no trend should be read into them, and the data holds no flying hours to divide by.
The first coded phase is the one attached to the first event in the NTSB's sequence for each accident. Accidents without a coded sequence, or with unmapped codes, sit in separate rows of the full table.
Landing begins 6 of the 17 accidents, 35.3% of the record, and takeoff begins 4. Together that is 10 of the 17, so most of the record begins near the runway.
Of the 14 accidents with causal findings in the NTSB's current coding, 78.6% involve personnel issues and 85.7% involve aircraft issues. An accident can carry several findings, so the shares overlap and do not add up to the whole.
Show the NTSB tables
| Year | Accidents | Fatal accidents |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014 | 3 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| Phase of flight | Accidents | Share of all accidents |
|---|---|---|
| Landing | 6 | 35.3% |
| Takeoff | 4 | 23.5% |
| Approach | 3 | 17.6% |
| Enroute | 2 | 11.8% |
| Initial Climb | 1 | 5.9% |
| Maneuvering | 1 | 5.9% |
| Total | 17 | 100.0% |
| Group | Accidents | Share of all | Share of coded subset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft | 12 | 70.6% | 85.7% |
| Personnel issues | 11 | 64.7% | 78.6% |
| Environmental issues | 3 | 17.6% | 21.4% |
| Not determined | 1 | 5.9% | 7.1% |
| Group | Accidents | Share of all | Share of coded subset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Performance | 1 | 5.9% | 100.0% |
What to take from the numbers
- Know which price you are reading. The only current figure is a dealer starting price of $129,900 for the Savannah SR, with common options.
- Ask what you are buying. The name covers factory-built and kit-built airplanes, and the register cannot separate them.
- Expect a small market. There are 70 aircraft on the register, and we found no dependable used-price sample.
- Get the records in writing. A light sport or kit-built airplane's history matters as much as its price, and no listing summary replaces it.
- Do not read a valid registration as a clean bill of health. Status V is paperwork, not an inspection.
Questions buyers ask
How much does a Savannah S cost?
The only current price we could verify is a US dealer's starting price of $129,900 for the Savannah SR with common options. It is not a maker list price, and kits and other models differ.
How many Savannah aircraft are there?
The FAA register lists 70 aircraft under the Savannah name, 67 with a valid registration, built by ICP or by individual builders.
Is there an FAA type certificate for the Savannah?
There is no FAA type certificate data sheet for it, so this page uses the register and the NTSB files and prints no certified specifications.
How many Savannah accidents has the NTSB recorded?
The NTSB files hold 17 accidents from 2007 through 2025, 3 of them fatal. These are counts, not rates, because flying hours by model are not published.
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Sources and how the numbers were made
Data through: FAA 2026-10-16; NTSB 2026-09-30.
How the numbers were made: We counted matching FAA registrations and showed valid registrations (status V) separately. We combined the NTSB files, counted each accident once and excluded incidents. No used asking-price sample is available. Ownership costs require inputs for the actual aircraft.
Privacy: No personal data is used in the published results. No owner, seller, crew, operator, narrative or individual accident record is published.
- Federal Aviation Administration. Releasable Aircraft Database. Retrieved 2026-10-18. The registry supplies fleet counts by model, build year, registrant type and state.
Source SHA-256:2fc5b3ea56c487c2ec8ae3a76e8ef17c9029e402557c472ad0431769f6740514 - Federal Aviation Administration. Aircraft Registration Database Description. Retrieved 2026-10-13. This document explains registration status and registrant-type codes.
- ICP Aircraft LLC. Models. Savannah SR. Retrieved 2026-10-18. The US dealer publishes a starting price for its named model and equipment scope.
- National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation accident data: avall. Retrieved 2026-10-18. The later accident file supplies counts, fatal outcomes, phases of flight, findings and manufacture years.
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Database SHA-256:c891b8a6fe55651294a0cb0fa328e5648833caf5ac62b1c21d6caf3ea5e99bb7 - National Transportation Safety Board. Historical aviation accident data: Pre2008. Retrieved 2026-10-18. The historical accident file supplies earlier counts and its own phase and finding categories.
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Database SHA-256:c2102e7e9f6773ab25c5564904db9b02d0a6d58ad8e73b3e9accda349ea85b9a - National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation data dictionaries. Retrieved 2026-10-13. Each file's dictionary defines the accident codes used here.
- National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation data download directory. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The directory gives the accident files' release dates.
- National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation database release notes. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The release notes explain file coverage and how causes and contributing factors are marked.
- National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation accident database query help. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The help page explains event dates, first phases, investigation status and limits on foreign investigations.
- National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation accident database. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The database page explains the geographic limits of these accident records.
- Federal Aviation Administration. General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The survey reports flight hours by aircraft category, which cannot support a model accident rate.
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