Archive note: This article was published in 2013. Aircraft counts, market shares, airport activity, ownership, and purchase-intention figures from that period are historical and should not be treated as current facts.
The original article collected ten private-aviation talking points that were circulating in 2013. They covered:
- The reported distribution of business jets inside and outside the United States.
- Regional shares of the private-jet market.
- Event-related business-aviation traffic around the Super Bowl.
- General-aviation activity at Van Nuys Airport.
- The Travel Air 6000-B known as Smiling Thru and its place in early business aviation.
- The Citation Excel family’s visibility in the United States.
- Contemporary reports about a highly customized Airbus A380 project.
- Public reporting about celebrity aircraft ownership.
- Surveyed aircraft owners’ purchase intentions at the time.
- International business-aviation departures from Teterboro Airport.
These subjects remain useful research prompts, but any statistic or ownership statement needs a dated primary source before it is repeated as current. Airport traffic changes, aircraft registrations move, surveys expire, and public reports about private aircraft can be incomplete.
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