Research Paper on:
General Aviation’s Place

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of aviation brings to mind for most the large, established airlines always in the news for breaking new ground on how much money individual companies can lose in a quarter  and still remain operational. There is a segment of the airline industry that is quite active yet receives little attention, however. General aviation includes all the flights that  are not regularly scheduled or military in nature (Interest in General Aviation Really Takes Off, 2003). At one New Jersey airport servicing only general aviation, the number of takeoffs  and landings in 2000 (236,339) was just over half the 457,182 takeoffs and landings at Newarks Liberty International Airport in the same year (Interest in General Aviation Really Takes Off,  2003). "General" Examples Including all flights not regularly scheduled or military leaves general aviation with a varied mix of aircraft types, uses and  owners. Crop dusters belong to general aviation, as do wholly-owned corporate Lear jets dedicated to the use of a single company. Other types of aircraft and uses include  piston executive charter, air ambulance, freight carriers and pleasure travelers consisting of owner-pilots. Of the more than 220,000 civilian aircraft registered in the United States, 95 percent belong to  general aviation rather than to the commercial sector (Interest in General Aviation Really Takes Off, 2003). NetJets provides a good example of a  general aviation company providing service that takes the form of a hybrid between private ownership and scheduled use. Time-share ownership has been common in resort real estate for decades  and currently constitutes the greatest area of growth in resort ownership sales; the same trend is operational in private corporate jets. Busy executive teams and individuals no longer must