On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 10:53:38 AM UTC-5, Dave Nadler wrote:
Hi All - I' searching for some stats to put things in context for the SSA presentation. Much obliged if anyone can provide sources for:

Annual stats from 1950s forward, USA and world totals:
- IFR flight-plans served
- active aircraft
- aircraft produced including GA (and LSA or as Europeans call them ultralights)
- TCAS-equipped aircraft

Thanks in advance for any help,
Best Regards, Dave

The GAMA Databook has plenty of data going back quite a way. You go pretty far back in their archive to get numbers from the 70's, though maybe not too much further than that: http://gama.aero/files/GAMA_2014_Dat...-%20LowRes.pdf It includes information on IFR operations.

Also, the GA and Part 135 survey provides quite a bit of information that may be useful to you: https://www.faa.gov/data_research/av...eral_aviation/ Just understand that it is survey data, so it is 'approximate'.

Don't know what your presentation is about, but I put together a presentation about the characteristics of GA for work. If you need that type of data, send me an email.