Author Topic: Interesting Aviation Facts (Read 215 times)

Ozark · « **on:** December 15, 2003, 05:27:01 PM »

Interesting aviation facts from US Census Bureau (Dec. 2003):

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2003/cb03-ff18SE.pdf

ra · « **Reply #1 on:** December 15, 2003, 05:36:07 PM »

Cool stuff. There's one major statistic missing:

54,233,871
The number of goobers who bought a house 1/2 mile from a General Aviation airport and now want to shut it down for noise abatement.

Ozark · « **Reply #2 on:** December 15, 2003, 05:45:41 PM »

Quote

Originally posted by ra
Cool stuff. There's one major statistic missing:

54,233,871
The number of goobers who bought a house 1/2 mile from a General Aviation airport and now want to shut it down for noise abatement.

NO SH:T!!!

Scootter · « **Reply #3 on:** December 15, 2003, 06:42:05 PM »

Wow

I am one of 244,000 and my plane is one of 218,000.
Thats kind of cool.

I dont think many new GA airports are in the works though.