Added and removed
The FAA issued 26,082 registration certificates so far in 2026, after 31,553 in all of 2025. A certificate is issued when an aircraft is first registered and again when it changes hands, so these are registrations, not new aircraft; drones are 22% of this year's.
Certificates issued, by year
Manned aircraft and drones together. Drones joined the register in numbers from 2016, and the agricultural-drone boom shows from 2023.
Month by month, the last three years
Deregistrations, by year
Aircraft leave the register when they are exported, destroyed, scrapped, or when a registration expires and is not renewed. The most common reason in the last ten years: registration expired, pending cancellation.
The table (10 rows)
| Reason recorded | Aircraft (ten years) |
|---|---|
| Registration expired, pending cancellation | 36,778 |
| Valid registration | 20,871 |
| Revoked, canceled | 6,682 |
| Sale reported, canceled | 5,712 |
| Sale reported | 1,912 |
| Registration pending, canceled | 1,418 |
| N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation | 1,212 |
| First notice for registration renewal | 1,204 |
| Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate | 1,100 |
| Revoked, pending cancellation | 875 |
Where exported aircraft go
Brazil, Canada and Mexico took the most U.S. aircraft in the last five years.
Day by day, the last sixty days
From the site's own daily comparison of the FAA's files: aircraft that joined and aircraft that left.
Where the numbers come from
- FAA Civil Aviation Registry (registered and deregistered aircraft files), 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.