In some way, you and your community rely upon America's small airplanes and airports every day. General Aviation (GA) provides vital services to individuals, families, churches, hospitals, colleges, small businesses, and tens of thousands of communities throughout America.

From airborne traffic reporting to the overnight shipment of your most recent catalog purchases to finding new sources of energy, GA is helping to make it possible for you and your community to lead better, safer, healthier, and more productive lives.

 
 
America is blessed with more than 19,000 airports and heliports. Scheduled airline carriers serve only 550 airports.
When you or a loved one needs urgent medical care, GA can provide emergency medevac services.
 
 
Thousands of private pilots and businesses donate the use of their own aircraft to transport the sick and injured.
Your local weather forecast comes straight from the forecasting system that was created to serve America's pilots.
 
 
It's not just Fortune 500 companies that use private aircraft for business — so do tens of thousands of small and medium sized businesses.
About 166 million passengers a year fly on small GA airplanes! That makes the 211,000 airplanes of GA this nation's largest "airline."
 
 
GA supports almost 1.3 million jobs and accounts for $102 billion dollars of total economic activity in the United States.

Aviation is one of the best avocations to use when trying to motivate today's students to learn subjects ranging from mathematics to trade and tourism.