List of general aviation activities

The following are some of the activities that normally fall within the scope of general aviation, which encompasses all civil aviation other than scheduled air service:

• Aerial burial
• Aerial photography
• Aerobatics
• Air racing
• Angel flights
• Air ambulance
• Air charter, including air taxi operations
• Air shows
• Airship
• Ballooning
• Bush flying
• Air cargo flights
• Crop dusting
• Commuting
• Emergency management
• Executive transportation
• Experimental aviation
• Fantasy flights
• Flight training
• Aerial firefighting
• Gliding
• Insect control
• Logging
• Parachuting
• Personal transportation
• Police air patrols
• Ranching
• Recreational aviation
• Resource exploration
• Search and rescue
• Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)
• Sightseeing
• Traffic reporting
• Utility line surveys
• Warbirds

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