{
  "generated_on": "2026-07-31",
  "review_candidates": 200,
  "active_aircraft_in_candidate_fleets": 41620,
  "approved_orphan_manufacturers": 0,
  "minimum_active_aircraft": 25,
  "minimum_aircraft_with_year": 10,
  "latest_recorded_year_cutoff": 2016,
  "methodology": "Established OEMs with at least 25 active airframes, at least 10 plausible manufacture years and no recorded build year in the last decade are placed into a manual review queue.",
  "caveat": "The absence of recent manufacture years does not prove that a manufacturer is defunct, unsupported or an orphan fleet. Every candidate requires a cited company-status and successor review."
}