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US Airport Operations: Local: Military (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 local airport operations (takeoffs and landings) classified as Military was 45,440 in January 2026, compared to 38,147 in December 2025. This constitutes a rise of 19.12 percent.

Sample. There are 421 observations overall in the monthly series displayed in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from January 1991 to January 2026.

History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: airport operations recorded a minimum of 38,147 in December 2025; they hit a peak of 146,585 in February 1999; they had a mean of 103,259.

Latest values

Date Value - Units
2025-11-30 42306.0
2025-12-31 38147.0
2026-01-31 45440.0

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Series Metadata

Field Value
Description US Airport Operations: Local: Military
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