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Aviation is a niche passion. In the United States, barely one person in 500 has a pilot’s certificate — and the U.S. has most of the world's pilots. Of the U.S. total, a little under one half are working for airlines or in the military, which leaves a relative handful of people for “general aviation,” or GA. The non-airline, non-military GA activities at the 5,000 small airports dotted across the U.S. include piloting corporate jets, flying crop dusters, conducting search-and-rescue miss
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