The fleet today
The FAA register holds 317,372 aircraft: 298,373 with a pilot or passengers on board and 18,999 drones. Piston singles are 66% of everything registered.
By kind
Light piston aircraft dominate: 209,941 piston singles against 19,147 business jets and 9,656 airliners. The median age column says how old a typical aircraft of that kind is.
The table (14 rows)
| Kind | Aircraft | Share | Median age (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piston singles | 209,941 | 66.1% | 51 |
| Business jets | 19,147 | 6.0% | 18 |
| Drones | 18,999 | 6.0% | 4 |
| Piston twins | 16,228 | 5.1% | 51 |
| Helicopters | 15,253 | 4.8% | 21 |
| Turboprops | 14,390 | 4.5% | 22 |
| Airliners | 9,656 | 3.0% | 16 |
| Balloons | 5,273 | 1.7% | 22 |
| Gliders | 4,770 | 1.5% | 45 |
| Light-sport aircraft | 2,972 | 0.9% | 22 |
| Gyroplanes | 425 | 0.1% | 8 |
| Electric and eVTOL | 282 | 0.1% | 4 |
| Airships | 33 | 0.0% | 29 |
| Other | 3 | 0.0% | 9 |
By state
Texas leads with 29,853 registered aircraft, then California (27,540) and Florida (21,698). Delaware's count is inflated by aircraft registered through trusts and holding companies there.
The table (10 rows)
| State | Aircraft | Of them drones |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29,853 | 1,701 |
| California | 27,540 | 4,065 |
| Florida | 21,698 | 323 |
| Delaware | 10,952 | 71 |
| Washington | 10,418 | 806 |
| Alaska | 9,145 | 69 |
| Georgia | 8,785 | 167 |
| Ohio | 8,516 | 853 |
| Arizona | 8,403 | 202 |
| Utah | 8,349 | 92 |
How old the fleet is
Of the 246,134 manned aircraft with a known year of manufacture, 140,224 (57%) are forty years old or more. The busiest building decades were the 1970s and 1960s; the chart shows how many aircraft from each decade are still registered.
52,239 aircraft have no year recorded, mostly amateur-built and older aircraft.
Year by year
Manned aircraft on the register today, by the year they were built (1930 onward).
What powers them
79% of manned aircraft have piston engines.
Who owns them
41% of aircraft are registered to individuals; the rest to companies, co-owners, partnerships and government bodies. No owner is named on this site unless it is an organisation.
Where the numbers come from
- FAA Civil Aviation Registry, releasable aircraft database, data of 2026-10-05
Computed once a night by this site from the public files named above; nothing here identifies a person. All analytics pages.