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Originally Posted by Vendor
GR! What is the actual figure on the number of planes do you think,  |
the number of airplanes in the USA total?
I couldn't venture to guess, and i think the FAA would have to go through a massive restructuring of their registration system to provide any remotely accurate number.
the difficult thing about it is that every year new aircraft are introduced into the "fleet" and every year aircraft are destroyed due to accidents, scrapping, parting out etc. so it is a constantly expanding and contracting number.
I said "400,000 aircraft" in my last post based on the data in the article. 400,000 aircraft in the whole of the USA seems like a low number.
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based on 5 minutes of google search i have seen numbers from 220,000 up to 375,000+ i dont know where these numbers are coming from or what sorts of aircraft they include (airline, private etc)