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APPENDIX II: PRELIMINARY AIRPORT ASSESSMENT <br /> APPENDIX <br /> <br />Airport Strategic Business Plan, 07/26/2021 63 <br />General Aviation Hours Flown <br />The total number of General Aviation hours flown in the United States reached a low in <br />1994 of 26,472,000 hours, which represents a decrease of 40.6% and a compounded <br />annual decrease of 3.7% over the period from the high of 44,589,000 hours achieved in <br />1980 (which corresponds with the first-year data was available). While this downward <br />trend reversed for a period of time (General Aviation hours flown increased 30.1% or a <br />compounded annual increase of 3.3% from 1994 to a peak of 34,450,000 hours in 2007). <br />Over the last 5 years, General Aviation hours flown increased 9.5% to 25,629,000 hours <br />or a compounded annual decrease of 1.1%. Figure 12 represents the number of general <br />aviation hours flown through 2018. <br /> <br />Figure 12: General Aviation Hours Flown  <br /> <br />While the number of hours flown by piston-powered aircraft have fluctuated (declining for <br />the most part) since the 1994, the number of turboprop and turbojet aircraft hours flown <br />have been cyclical (increasing for the most part) over this same 20-year period. These <br />fluctuations can be attributed, in large part, to changes in the economy. <br />At first glance, the increase in the number of active general aviation aircraft since 1994 <br />and the decline in general aviation hours flown since 1999 appear to be contradictory. <br />However, these divergent trends are supported by the decline in the average number of <br />hours flown per aircraft which has decreased from a high of 139.3 hours per aircraft in <br />1994 to 119 hours per aircraft in 2018. <br />