Of the 546 general aviation aircraft models in the PlaneFit database, 121 are confirmed as still being built as of August 2026, across 45 manufacturers. 406 have ceased production. Another 17 have no recorded end year but no dated first-party document confirming that production continues. 1 are announced for a future model year and 1 have no usable production span. These states are kept separate so an empty end-year field can never become evidence by itself.
Production status by class, 2026
Every catalogued model, split by lifecycle and evidence state. Ordered by the number with confirmed current production.
| Class | Catalogued | Confirmed | Unverified open span | Announced | Unknown | Ceased |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-engine piston | 131 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 95 |
| Helicopter | 103 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 71 |
| Light jet | 161 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 128 |
| Twin-engine turboprop | 70 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 58 |
| Ultralight / microlight | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Single-engine turboprop | 29 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 18 |
| Twin-engine piston | 43 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 |
| All classes | 546 | 121 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 406 |
What this counts
Confirmed in production means the manufacturer is currently building new airframes or kits of that model and PlaneFit holds a dated first-party document supporting that claim. It is not a statement about whether the type certificate is live, whether parts and support remain available, or whether the model is still being sold second-hand. All three routinely outlast production by decades, which is why counts drawn from certificate registers run so much higher than this one.
A model counts once. Variants that share an airframe but differ enough to change what a buyer gets are held as separate rows and counted separately, because a buyer choosing between them is choosing between two different aircraft.
Conversion and upgrade packages do not count as production. A package fitted to an airframe built decades ago is still sold, but no new airframe is. Those rows take their production span from the airframes they are fitted to, so a package that is currently marketed does not appear here as an aircraft currently built.
Confirmedrequires that a page published by the manufacturer name that model in its current lineup, and that a human read the page in a recorded month. A forum post, a broker listing, a specification sheet of unknown vintage or a press release from 2014 do not qualify. The document has to be the manufacturer's own and it has to be dated.
The finding: nobody maintains this record, including manufacturers
17 additional models have an open production span but no dated first-party document behind a current-production claim. That is not evidence those models have stopped. It is the absence of any published page, from the company that builds the aircraft, that says in 2026 whether it still does.
This is the real state of the public record. A specification page that has not changed in eight years cannot answer the question, because nothing about it says whether the factory is running. The only documents that settle it are current lineup pages, delivery announcements and production restarts. Among the 138records that either have confirmation or an open span, roughly 12out of every 100 lack confirmation that we could find and date.
We publish the unverified count rather than quietly folding it into the headline because a statistic that cannot be challenged is not worth citing. If you quote the 121 confirmed figure, keep it separate from the 17unverified open spans.
The 121 confirmed models, with their documents
Each row links to the manufacturer page naming the model in its current lineup, and the month that page was read. Check any of them.
What is still being built, by class
The in-production models in each class, with specifications, ownership costs and the trade-offs between them.