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US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly

This series is part of the dataset: US Airport Operations (FAA)

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Latest updates. In the United States, the number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) classified in the General Aviation category stood at 1,059,668 in January 2026, versus 999,756 in December 2025. This constitutes an increase of 5.99 percent.

Sample. In the monthly time series displayed in the chart, there are a total of 421 observations. The series covers the span of time going from January 1991 to January 2026.

History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: airport operations were equal on average to 1,466,249; they reached their lowest level of 621,558 in April 2020; they recorded their maximum of 2,155,638 in July 1998.

Latest values

Date Value - Units
2025-11-30 1169946.0
2025-12-31 999756.0
2026-01-31 1059668.0

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation
Country United States
Economic concept Flow
Data type Quantity
Seasonally adjusted No
Deflation method Not applicable
Rescaling None
Measure type Level
Frequency Monthly
Unit Units
Source Federal Aviation Administration
Source type Government agency
Data licence Not copyrightable under U.S. law
Other information Not available
FSR temporal aggregation code SM1

Series in the same data set

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Seasonally unadjusted

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally unadjusted) - United States - US Federal Aviation Administration - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31

Seasonally adjusted

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Carrier (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Air Taxi (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: General Aviation (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Civil (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Local: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31
US Airport Operations: Total (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly 421 1991-01-31 2026-01-31