How many planes are there in the world ?

Question

there must be some figures somewhere held by an organisation with the quanitity rather than looking at all the relevant companies and adding them up.

Answer 1

From the FAA (they're your best bet): Total Number of Aircraft with a Fixed or Retractable Landing Gear System, as of 2002 = 273,870

Now, that would only be planes that have registered through the FAA which the FAA is making publicly available. So it would exclude planes registered outside the US and probaly also the ones in the US military. So with a little imagination you could probably make an educated guess that there are probably bewteen 1 and 3 million planes world wide today (the us has 300 million of the worlds 6 billion people, but the US is also the wealthiest country in the world so it would have a higher plane to person ratio than most other countries)

the organisations likeliest to have this estimate would be the FAA and the ICAO (www.icao.int), and maybe also the UN. I couldnt find it though. Happy googling.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

By 2032, the global fleet will top 40,000.

Answer 4

How would anybody know that since many countries wouldn't
let you know?

Answer 5

there are milions opf planes. how can you ask such a question?

Answer 6

1,457,653