Fifty students across five years built an ICP Savannah microlight from a kitset: 6,000 rivets, 600 hours, and one completed aircraft.
In 2021, eleven Rosmini College students visited the Air Force workshops at Whenuapai, then got to work on an ICP Savannah microlight kitset. The project ran for five years, with new students joining each year to pick up where the last group left off.
By the time the aircraft was finished in 2025, fifty students had worked on it. The build involved around 6,000 rivets and 600 hours of work, all done in school workshops alongside our volunteer team.
Of those fifty students, 35 went on to train as engineers, eight as pilots, and one as a rocket designer.
The completed Savannah has since departed for its new home.
In the news
- Flying high: Rosmini students to build plane — Rangitoto Observer, June 2021
- New aviation endeavors at Rosmini — Rosmini College, June 2025
