The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Aviation Analytics · rebuilt every night from the FAA and NTSB files · FAA data of October 5, 2026

Aviation Analytics

The numbers behind American aviation, each page a short story in plain English with a chart or two: the fleet and who builds it, what is joining and leaving the register, where and when accidents happen and which models they involve, the busiest airports, and what the live picture shows. Everything is about models, makers, places and years; never about a person.

Aircraft

The fleet today
317,372 aircraft
How many aircraft are registered, of what kind, where, and how old they are.
Who makes the fleet
981 makers
The makers and models with the most aircraft on the register.
Electric and eVTOL
273 electric and eVTOL
How the electric fleet is growing, who builds it and where it is based.
Added and removed
26,082 certificates so far in 2026
Registrations and deregistrations by year and by month, and where exported aircraft go.

Accidents & safety

Accidents by model
13,416 cases in 10 years
Which models and makers appear most in the NTSB record, and the fairer rate per thousand registered.
When accidents happen
3,409 fatal
Phase of flight, kind of flight, rules, weather, time of day and season.
Accidents and the age of the aircraft
median aircraft age 47 years
How old the aircraft in the record were, and when they were built.
Where accidents happen
54 states
By state, with the fleet taken into account, and by nearest airport.

Airports

Airports by the numbers
5,159 landing places
The busiest airports, passengers, based aircraft, and the FAA's forecast.
Activity now
25,952 aircraft seen
What the live record shows: busiest airports, busiest hours, most-flown types.

More numbers elsewhere on the site

Electric aviation The electric fleet, aircraft by aircraft.The drone market Drones on the register by maker and use.What changed Day by day: aircraft joining and leaving the register.Makers Every maker, with its models and fleet.Models Model families, from the Cessna 172 to the Boeing 737.Accident records Every NTSB case, in plain English.Airports Every public-use airport, with its map.Live map Aircraft in the air right now.

About these pages

Every figure is computed once a night from the files this site already holds: the FAA's aircraft register (daily), the NTSB's accident database (weekly), the FAA's airport file and Terminal Area Forecast, and the site's own record of live positions. Each page says where its numbers come from and the date of the data. Rates per thousand aircraft use today's register as the denominator, which is a fair approximation over a ten-year window but not an exact exposure measure; nothing here weighs hours flown.