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Key Aerospace Facts

 

    Airlines

    2010 data
    Source: Ascend
  • World airline fleet: 25,244 western-built aircraft
  • Passengers carried on western-built aircraft: 2,720m
  • Number of flights of western-built aircraft: 35.6m
  • Total Flying Hours of western-built aircraft: 61m
    General Aviation


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    and rotor wing aircraft
  • Number of GA aircraft worldwide: 320,000 (2009) - source: GAMA
  • Number of GA aircraft in the UK: 11,908 (1 Jan 2010) - source: CAA
  • Number of GA aircraft in the US: 223,000 (2008) - source: GAMA
  • Number of GA aircraft in Canada: 22,320 (2009) - source: GAMA
  • Number of GA aircraft in France: 16,000 (2005) - source: CAA
  • Number of GA aircraft in the Switzerland: 2,177 (2006) - source: GAMA
    Manufacturers

    2009 data
  • Airbus: 310 orders | 498 delivered - source Airbus
  • Boeing: 263 orders | 481 delivered - source Boeing
  • Embraer: 266 orders | 244 delivered - source Embraer
  • Bombardier: 302 delivered - source Bombardier
  • GA aircraft deliveries: 2,276 - source GAMA
    Space
  • In 2009, there were 46 commercially-procured launches - source Satellite Industry Association
  • Today about 3,000 useful satellites and 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' are orbiting the Earth