Part 91 Business Jet Fleet

Part 91 is the FAA's general operating rule set for civil aircraft. A business jet or turboprop flown by its owner, a corporate flight department or a management company for the owner's own use, rather than sold to the public as charter under Part 135 or flown by an airline, operates under Part 91. Fractional ownership programs use its Subpart K.

The FAA Aircraft Registry lists 19,435 U.S.-registered business jets and turboprops that are not on a Part 135 charter certificate, held by 13,715 registered owners across 54 states and territories.

We start from every valid registration in the FAA Aircraft Registry and keep fixed-wing aircraft with a turbine engine, checked against the installed engine model because the FAA's engine type codes are unreliable. We then remove every aircraft on the FAA Part 135 charter list, airliner types, government aircraft, restricted, experimental and agricultural aircraft, drones and ex-military types.

The 19,435 aircraft break down as: Turboprop (7,072), Midsize Jet (3,259), Light Jet (2,531), Heavy Jet (2,273), Ultra Long Range (1,592), Super Midsize (1,379), Very Light Jet (1,329). Classes use the same method as our Part 135 Business Jet View.

We match every tail number to its FAA Mode S address and check it against ADS-B flight data (via adsb.lol) through Oct 29, 2026. Of these 19,435 aircraft, 16,854 flew in the last 12 months and 2,424 were tracked the whole period without a single flight. Aircraft we began tracking recently stay listed until they have 12 months of tracking.

By registered owner address: TX (1,989), DE (1,808), UT (1,671), FL (1,655), CA (1,159). Aircraft owned through trusts and LLCs are registered at the trustee's or company's address, so this is the owner of record, not where the aircraft is based.

The FAA Aircraft Registry does not publish a name or address for some registrations, where the owner has asked for them to be withheld. 536 aircraft in this list are shown as "Name withheld (FAA)"; they are still counted, classified and tracked like every other aircraft.

Not as listed. An aircraft can only be flown for hire once an operator places it on a Part 135 certificate. For aircraft available for charter, see the Part 135 Business Jet Charter Fleet.

Monthly, from the FAA Aircraft Registry and the FAA Part 135 list, with flight activity recalculated from ADS-B data each time.