For example, airborne Los Angeles law enforcement officers responded to more than 32,995 incidents in a single year, an average of 3.8 per hour. That's government productivity, made possible by general aviation. General aviation helps agriculture Agricultural pilots treat more than 300 million acres of land a year, boosting production of the nation's agricultural bounty. Sixty-five percent of all commercially applied crop protection is applied by air. Ninety percent of the U.S. rice crop is planted by aircraft.
Ranchers use general aviation airplanes to manage herds and grazing land.
Aviation and agriculture are longtime partners in progress. If the nation's major scheduled airlines are the arteries of the air transportation system, general aviation is certainly the veins and capillaries. Commuter airlines and air taxis carry fare-paying passengers to and from smaller cities. Half of all airline flights merely shuttle passengers among just 21 hub airports. General aviation serves all 13,000 U.S. airports and thousands more heliports and seaplane facilities with timely and flexible air transportation.