US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military (units; seasonally adjusted) - United States - FSR - Monthly
This series is part of the dataset: US Airport Operations (FAA)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, the seasonally-adjusted number of itinerant airport operations (takeoffs and landings) classified as Military was 87,390 in January 2026, compared to 86,275 in December 2025. This constitutes a gain of 1.29 percent.
Sample. There are 421 observations overall in the monthly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the period stretching from January 1991 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: airport operations hit a minimum of 75,856 in April 2020; they reached their highest level of 140,277 in September 1992; they were equal on average to 110,530.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Units |
|---|---|
| 2025-11-30 | 76591.79067345012 |
| 2025-12-31 | 86275.1509923602 |
| 2026-01-31 | 87390.4971898836 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | US Airport Operations: Itinerant: Military |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Unit | Units |
| Source | FetchSeries Research; calculations on Federal Aviation Administration data |
| Source type | Data research lab |
| Data licence | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) + FetchSeries disclaimers |
| Other information | Not available |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | SM1 |
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