Chronic Snoozer
31st Mar 2004, 08:20
At its annual forecast conference last week, the FAA unveiled its outlook for the next decade of general aviation and compiled its statistics for 2002-2003. Overall, the FAA expects a strong recovery to continue through 2005, with moderate sustained growth thereafter. The GA fleet will expand at a rate of 1.3 percent a year, adding more than 35,000 airplanes by 2015, the FAA said. The aging of the GA fleet is one factor preventing the growth of utilization rates for single-engine piston aircraft. Usage declines in aircraft more than 25 years old, the FAA says, and with each passing year a greater percentage of the single-engine fleet falls into that category. All categories of pilots continue to grow, the FAA says. About 58.7 percent of pilots today are instrument-rated, and that should grow to 61.6 percent by 2016. More...
35K aircraft in 10 years - eye watering stuff!AVWEB (http://www.avweb.com/newswire/10_14a/leadnews/186968-1.html/)
35K aircraft in 10 years - eye watering stuff!AVWEB (http://www.avweb.com/newswire/10_14a/leadnews/186968-1.html/)