Safety
FAA Urges Genav Operators To Complete Activity Survey
Survey data underpins safety metrics and policy decisions
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The FAA is urging aircraft owners and operators selected for its 47th Annual General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey to complete the brief questionnaire, emphasizing the role of the data in shaping safety metrics, infrastructure planning, and regulatory decisions.

Now underway, the 2025 survey, which reports on 2024 flight data, was sent to a statistically selected sample of U.S. aircraft owners, with turbine, rotorcraft, and Alaska-based aircraft surveyed at a 100% rate. Roughly 30% of the total general aviation (GA) fleet is sampled each year, with lighter aircraft such as piston singles surveyed at a lower rate.