29,676 amateur-built aircraft on the US register

Nearly one in ten is built in a garage, and the FAA counts every one. PlanePassion also counts 5,203 warbirds, all from FAA, NTSB and Smithsonian records.

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A P-51D Mustang on display at the National Air and Space Museum

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A B-17 Flying Fortress with a red tail at the Dyess Air Force Base air show

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A US Navy F4U-1A Corsair of Fighting Squadron 17 banking over Bougainville

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Photos: P-51 Mustang, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, public domain (CC0). B-17 Flying Fortress, Balon Greyjoy, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. F4U Corsair, U.S. Navy, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Behind every airshow Mustang, and every garage-built RV, is a line in a federal database: an owner, a serial number, a year, an engine. PlanePassion reads those lines, counts them, and tells you what they add up to.

Warbirds in America

5,203 military aircraft on the US register across 29 types, with owners, states and NTSB accident records.

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Homebuilt aircraft

29,676 amateur-built aircraft on the US register, by design, build year, state per person, engine and NTSB accident record.

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Registered doesn't mean flying, and a count isn't a rate. Each page says where its numbers stop.