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Useless information For those of you who like useless information (doubt it would make a good pick-up line), here is a little. I pull the FAA database every month as part of my directory of Coupes. At the end of the August 2003, the FAA had 353,768 aircraft in their downloadable database. Of these, 338,733 had valid registrations (not revoked) and 300,189 had valid years (after 1900) and registrations. I may have killed a balloon or two by using that date. So here are the details: Data is for valid registration with valid date. Average year of manufacture 1971 Minimum year of manufacture 1910 Maximum year of manufacture 2003 Mode (most common) year of manufacture 1946 with 14,348 aircraft Next closest year of manufacture is 1978 with 12,162 aircraft Of the 2,997 Coupes listed Triennial Undeliverable by Post Office 5 Sale reported 287* 2nd Triennial mailed with no response 299* Foreign Corp. hasn't returned hour report 1 Registration pending 28 Registered 2,001 Total Valid Coupes 2,621 Revoked 376 Total Coupes in FAA database 2,997 * Some go back to the 1980's and many have been scraped or destroyed. My own data shows that only 2,329 Coupes are registered in the US and I have no data showing they have been destroyed, scraped, or in a project condition. My guess is there are fewer than 2,000 (maybe 1,800) flying in the US. Of the 473 non-US Coupes I have data on, at least 193 are revoked. How many of these are flying I am not sure. End of today's useless information. Richard N99904 ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm Search the archives on http://escribe.com/aviation/coupers/
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