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Homebuilt Fleet Sizes - 2017
Every new year, I download the FAA registration database and extract the number of homebuilt aircraft.
First: Total aircraft on the FAA registry:
Year |
All Aircraft |
Net Increase |
Total Deregistered |
New Aircraft |
|
EAB |
Net EAB Increase |
EAB Deregistered |
New EAB Aircraft |
2009 |
374373 |
-1751 |
7018 |
5267 |
| |
31914 |
672 |
464 |
1136 |
2010 |
373896 |
-477 |
5422 |
4945 |
| |
32682 |
768 |
309 |
1077 |
2011 |
367857 |
-6039 |
11224 |
5185 |
| |
33038 |
356 |
666 |
1022 |
2012 |
352198 |
-15659 |
20985 |
5326 |
| |
32041 |
-997 |
1951 |
954 |
2013 |
317993 |
-34205 |
40188 |
5983 |
| |
27946 |
-4095 |
5013 |
918 |
2014 |
312586 |
-5407 |
12588 |
7181 |
| |
27909 |
-37 |
1084 |
1047 |
2015 |
314404 |
1818 |
8240 |
10058 |
| |
28078 |
169 |
781 |
950 |
2016 |
320683 |
6279 |
4254 |
10533 |
| |
28830 |
752 |
225 |
977 |
2017 |
312344 |
-8339 |
14961 |
6622 |
| |
28451 |
-379 |
1296 |
917 |
The total number of registered homebuilts dropped by 379 last year, and this was due to an increased number of aircraft deregistered by the FAA. You'll see the same effect in the "All Aircraft" columns. Not sure what happened last year, but it may be due to owners deciding not to maintain the listings of inactive/no-long-existing aircraft. As you can see, the "All Aircraft" section shows the same impact...a big jump in deregistrations.
There were about 1020 new homebuilt N-Numbers last year, but roughly 100 were re-numbered existing aircraft. By my analysis, 917 brand-new homebuilts were added to the fleet last year. This is slightly less than average.
Ron Wanttaja
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