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A production relation linking total flight hours to size of the general aviation fleet is used to derive a nonlinear model explaining average flight hours per plane per year. The model includes parameters measuring the effect of relative operating costs and corporate profits, as well as a parameter measuring the maximum practical flight hours from an aircraft. An estimate of maximum practical flight hours is useful information for aircraft manufacturers in developing marketing strategies and for aircraft operators in making purchase decisions and in planning fleet expansion. Model parameters explaining average flight hours for general aviation turboprop and jet aircraft are estimated over annual data from 1969 through 1985. As expected, relative operating costs are negatively related to average flight hours and corporate profits are positively related to average flight hours. Practical maximum flight hours are estimated to be approximately 1,055 hr per year for general aviation turboprop aircraft and approximately 900 hr per year for general aviation jet aircraft. These values are approximately twice the mean average hours flown and several hundred flight hours above the maximum average hours observed for these type of aircraft over the sample period. However, the estimated values are consistent with use observed amoung operators of general aviaiton turbine aircraft with sufficiently large facilities and staff to support intensive aircraft operations.

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Estimating; Flight time; Jet propelled aircraft; Mathematical models; Operating costs; Profits; Turboprop aircraft

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