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Fleet age

Distribution of build years across 1,000 sampled civil airframes from 1936 to 2023. Civil aviation has long memory — vintage GA airframes dominate the curve.

  • 1930s
    36
  • 1940s
    23
  • 1950s
    43
  • 1960s
    64
  • 1970s
    86
  • 1980s
    164
  • 1990s
    68
  • 2000s
    318
  • 2010s
    192
  • 2020s
    6

Sample of 1,000 airframes with a populated year_built. Real population is ~420k airframes with year data of the 695k total.