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General Aviation Flight Operations
As indicated in Table 1, recreational flying in personal aircraft (personal flying) and flight instruction, the typical activities one might expect to see at a small to mid-
5 CRS calculations based on Federal Aviation Administration. FAA Aerospace Forecasts
– Fiscal Years 2005-2016. March 2005.
6 The set of regulations specified in Title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 91 – General Operating and Flight Rules, apply to all civil aircraft operating in the national airspace system. Like GA aircraft, non-revenue airline flights are subject to these rules, but are not subject to additional safety and security regulations specifically applicable to revenue air carrier operations.
sized GA airport, comprises slightly more than half of all GA operations and accounts for about 75% of all aircraft in the total GA fleet. Business and corporate flying – which encompasses anything from small businesses flying cancelled checks or regional salesmen flying to customer sites in small single-engine aircraft, to companies ferrying crews to offshore oil rigs by helicopter, to operations of large corporate jets and professionally managed fractional-ownership fleets – makes up about one-quarter of all GA operations. On-demand charter services, referred to as air taxi services, and air tours are also considered GA operations and make up about 5% of all general aviation operations. In addition to these major categories, there are a wide variety of additional GA operations such as aerial advertising (banner towing and skywriting), aerial application (crop-dusting), aerial photography, mapping and data collection, traffic reporting, air ambulance and medical evacuation, and search and rescue, that account for the remaining 14% of all GA operations.
Table 1. U.S. General Aviation Fleet and Activity
CATEGORY Number of Aircraft Percent of GA Fleet Hours Flown (Millions) Percent of Operations
Corporate 10,500 5.0 3.2 11.7
Business 25,000 11.9 3.4 12.4
Personal 146,700 70.0 11.3 41.2
Instructional 12,700 6.1 4.4 16.1
Air Taxi/Charter 2,600 1.2 1.2 4.4
Air Tours 200 0.1 0.2 0.7
Aerial Application 3,300 1.6 1.1 4.0
Aerial Observation 4,200 2.0 1.3 4.7
Aerial Other 800 0.4 0.1 0.4
External Load 200 0.1 0.1 0.4
Other Work 1,700 0.8 0.4 1.5
Sightseeing 900 0.4 0.2 0.7
Medical Services 900 0.4 0.5 1.8
TOTAL 209,700 100.0 27.4 100.0
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