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Asked by Rocketronny to Monica on 11 Mar 2016.
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Monica Rozeik answered on 11 Mar 2016:
I think that’s a question for a mechanical engineer! I had a quick look and there’s a cool flight tracking app that would let you see on a map how many are in the air at any one time. You should find that with a search on Google.
Just over the USA, there can be over 5000 planes flying at anyone time and about 20,000 in total in the world…that’s pretty cool!
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Dominic commented on :
That’s a tough one! My farther-in-law was an air traffic controller and has lots of stories about aviation, but I don’t think he could answer that one. There are some pretty cool website where you can live-track planes that are flying above you, such as https://www.flightradar24.com
Matt commented on :
Just to add to the previous answers all civil aircraft have to be registered and countries have their own registration agencies. In the UK it’s the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) who are responsible for capturing the information.
The “International Register of Civil Aircraft” is an collection of over 50 such country’s different databases and it has over 400,000 aircraft registered on it.
That’s just civilian aircraft, I tried to ask the US government how many military aircraft they had and they wanted me to put on an Orange jumpsuit and go to Guantanamo Bay to find out.