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like mine (light aircraft are definitely in the minority). Again, I don't doubt that the usage you describe (limiting "general aviation" to private aviation) exists, but in the 30 or 40 airports I've flown into in Canada and the U.S., and the pilot organizations I belong to (including COPA and AOPA), GA has the same definition as in the
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I've operated into KPHL quite a few times and I don't recall a GA terminal, and none is shown on the aerodrome chart, so it may well be that the aircraft you mention were not GA. In any case, as we have already said, size is not significant. The aircraft you mention may not have been 'common carrier'
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Services site, for example, allowed for the possibility of charter GA
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Chicago Convention), but after staring long enough, I realized that I could convert it into a short section on Civil Aviation Authorities that was more-or-less relevant to the article. Feel free to tighten it up a bit
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The first of those examples, as you would expect, doesn't disagree with the one derived from FAR. However the others are from Canada, not the US. Possibly because aviation in Canada is regulated by
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operations, though it would help to know whose aircraft they were. I also note that KPHL list its traffic as :- Aircraft operations: avg 1838/day, 41% air carriers, 28% commuters, 28% air taxi, 3% transient general aviation, <1% military which confirms the FAA definition.
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Transport Canada vs the FAA, because (as you've noted) "general aviation" is not a regulatory term in Canada or the U.S. Here's a U.S. example, from a web site sponsored by
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