Editing General aviation (section)

===North America===
General aviation is particularly popular in North America, with over 6,300 airports available for public use by pilots of general aviation aircraft (around 5,200 airports in the [[United States|U.S.]] and over 1,000 in [[Canada]]<ref name="CFS">[[Nav Canada]]: ''Canada Flight Supplement - Canada and North Atlantic Terminal and Enroute Data'' Nav Canada, 2010.</ref>). In comparison, scheduled flights operate from around 560 airports in the U.S.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/books-online/FAAFactBook.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219141349/http://libraryonline.erau.edu/online-full-text/books-online/FAAFactBook.pdf |archive-date=2009-02-19 |url-status=live|title=FAA Administrator's Fact Book|date=March 2010|publisher=U.S. Department of Transportation|page=16}}
</ref> According to the U.S. [[Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association]], general aviation provides more than one percent of the United States' [[GDP]], accounting for 1.3 million jobs in [[professional service]]s and [[aircraft manufacturing|manufacturing]].<ref>[http://www.aopa.org/ AOPA USA's General Aviation website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214124431/http://www.aopa.org/ |date=14 February 2015 }}.</ref>