CC BY 4.0 · FAA file of October 5, 2026
Open data on the US business jet fleet
Who owns it, where it is registered, what it is and how old it is
17,557 business jets and 9,074 turboprops are on the US register. Each table below has its own page with a chart and the full data, and a CSV you can download, chart and republish with credit.
- Aircraft counted26,631business jets and turboprops
- Datasets67 CSV files, 186 rows
- State pages46states with 50 or more aircraft
- LicenceCC BY 4.0free to reuse with credit
DATASETS
6 datasets from the FAA registry
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Most common jet in Utah: Bombardier Global Express / 5000 / 6000 / 6500, 145 Business jets by state
1,650business jets registered in Utah, the most of any stateUtah has the most business jets on the US register, 1,650, ahead of Texas (1,570) and Florida (1,515). Counting turboprops too, Texas leads with 2,409 aircraft.
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73% of Cessna Citation CJ2 / CJ2+ aircraft are held by an LLC Who owns private jets
56%of US business jets and turboprops are registered to an LLCMost private jets in the US are owned by companies formed to hold them: 56% of the 26,631 business jets and turboprops on the register belong to an LLC, 22% to a corporation and 11% to a trust. Only 2.3% are registered to a person in their own name.
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Most common: Bombardier Challenger 300 / 350 / 3500, 867 Most common business jets
867Bombardier Challenger 300 / 350 / 3500 registered, the most of any business jetThe Bombardier Challenger 300 / 350 / 3500 is the most common business jet in the US, with 867 on the FAA register, followed by the Cirrus Vision Jet SF50 (761) and the Cessna Citation Excel / XLS / XLS+ (744).
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Oldest large fleet: Cessna Citation I / I/SP, median build year 1979 Average age of business jets
18 yearsmedian age of a US-registered business jetThe median US business jet is 18 years old and the average (mean) is 18.1 years. Turboprops are older: median 22, mean 24.8.
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42% of Gulfstream G650 / G650ER aircraft are held in trust Aircraft owner trusts
2,894US business aircraft registered to a trustee2,894 US business jets and turboprops are registered to a trustee. Two Utah companies hold most of them: TVPX (1,192) and Bank of Utah (561).
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Most certificates in 12 months: Pilatus PC-12 (all variants), 271 Registrations by month
4,753registration certificates in the last 12 monthsThe FAA issued 4,753 registration certificates to US business jets and turboprops in the 12 months to October 5, 2026, about 396 a month. December 2025 was the busiest month, with 501.
Also: age by class (CSV), and every table in one long file (dataset, key, column, value). Other Radar data with a CSV: Private Jet Price Index, AD burden by model, US private jet fleet census, Private jet fuel burn and CO2 per hour.
LICENCE, METHOD, UPDATES
Using the data
- LicencePublished under CC BY 4.0. Copy, chart and republish it, commercially or not. Credit: “Source: Radar (useradar.com), from FAA registry data as of October 5, 2026”, with a link to the page the figure comes from.
- MethodCounted from the FAA Releasable Aircraft Database: the registration file joined to the aircraft and engine reference files, matched to model families. Airliners, former military jets, crop sprayers and experimental aircraft are left out. Full rules: the ownership report and the fleet census.
- PrivacyAggregates and company names only. No N-number, serial number, person’s name or city in any file. Counts of individually owned or co-owned aircraft under five show as “<5”. Records the FAA withholds count only in national totals.
- UpdatesRecounted from the newest FAA file each time the site is updated; the FAA file date is in every row. The monthly fleet report compares one stored file with the next (latest: September 2026).
Registered is not active: the register includes stored, for-sale and not-yet-delivered aircraft, so it runs higher than counts of the active fleet. The FAA registry itself is public US government data; Radar’s work is the model matching, the owner-type, trustee and registered-agent grouping and the privacy rules.