generated: '2026-08-22'
method: probed
source: >-
  Live probes of every surface plus a search of www.iconaircraft.com for a versioning, deprecation,
  SLA, status or changelog page, 2026-08-22.
summary: >-
  ICON Aircraft publishes no API lifecycle commitments of any kind — no versioning policy, no
  deprecation policy, no Sunset or Deprecation headers, no SLA, no status page and no changelog.
  That is the expected posture for an aircraft manufacturer with no developer program, and it is
  recorded here as an honest absence rather than a gap the company failed to fill. The only
  versioning visible anywhere in the profile belongs to the platforms underneath it.
status_page:
  present: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    status.iconaircraft.com resolves only through a wildcard DNS record to the corporate site's
    origin and presents a certificate that does not cover the name; no status service exists.
    No third-party status page (Statuspage, Instatus, Better Stack) was found for either host.
deprecation_policy:
  present: false
  url: null
  headers_observed: []
  note: >-
    No Deprecation or Sunset header (RFC 8594) was returned on any probed response, and no policy
    page exists. Nothing in either OpenAPI is marked deprecated.
sla:
  present: false
  note: No uptime or support commitment is published for any surface.
changelog:
  present: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    The corporate site publishes a news archive at https://www.iconaircraft.com/updates/ and an RSS
    feed at /feed/, but these are company news, not an API changelog. No API changelog exists.
versioning:
- surface: ICON Aircraft Content API
  scheme: namespace-in-path
  current: wp/v2
  owner: WordPress core
  platform_version: WordPress 6.7.1
  platform_version_source: 'meta name="generator" on https://www.iconaircraft.com/'
  policy_published: false
  note: >-
    The version identifies the WordPress core REST namespace. ICON neither sets it nor commits to
    it; an upstream WordPress upgrade changes this surface without any notice to consumers.
- surface: Shop ICON Storefront API
  scheme: unversioned
  current: null
  owner: Shopify
  policy_published: false
  note: >-
    The .json storefront endpoints carry no version segment at all. Their shape is whatever the
    Shopify platform currently returns.
- surface: Shop ICON UCP/MCP Server
  scheme: date-stamped protocol version
  current: '2026-04-08'
  supported:
  - '2026-04-08'
  - '2026-01-23'
  owner: Universal Commerce Protocol / Shopify
  policy_published: true
  policy_url: https://store.iconaircraft.com/.well-known/ucp
  note: >-
    The only surface in the profile with a real version policy, and it is inherited rather than
    authored. Two versions are served side by side, each with its own discovery document, which is
    a genuine backward-compatibility commitment — but it is Shopify's commitment, not ICON's.
deprecated_operations: []
observed_freshness:
- surface: ICON Aircraft Content API
  signal: most recent published post
  value: '2026-07-20'
- surface: Shop ICON Storefront API
  signal: most recent product updated_at
  value: '2026-08-22'
  note: The storefront is actively maintained — a product record was updated the day it was probed.
corporate_context:
  note: >-
    ICON Aircraft entered Chapter 11 in 2024 and was acquired in 2025 by Shang Gong Group, making
    it a sister company of Flight Design as of April 2025. Both web surfaces are live and current
    under the new ownership, and the storefront now carries Flight Design branded merchandise.
    Recorded because an ownership change is the usual cause of surface churn, not because any
    surface is currently at risk.