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Job 29 · Editorial evidence queue

Active fleets whose manufacturer status needs investigating

Established aircraft makers with a material active fleet but no recent manufacture year visible in Sprinkle, prepared as a research queue—not labelled defunct or unsupported.

Source: current Sprinkle aircraft and manufacturer recordsLoading data date…Refresh: quarterly review; monthly fleet count
No manufacturer is approved as an orphan fleet. Old recorded aircraft do not prove a company has ceased trading or that type support is unavailable. Add a cited company-status, successor and support review before publication.

Research queue

Search the evidence candidates

The screening rule requires at least 25 active airframes, 10 usable build years and no recorded manufacture year in the past decade. It deliberately produces leads, not conclusions.

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Methodology

How candidates enter the queue

  • Kept active, non-merged airframes linked to manufacturers marked as established OEMs in Sprinkle.
  • Aggregated active airframes and distinct models by manufacturer.
  • Required at least 25 active airframes and at least 10 plausible recorded manufacture years.
  • Required the latest visible manufacture year to be at least ten years old.
  • Added blank review fields for defunct status, ceased year, successor/support organisation, evidence source, notes and explicit approval.

Editorial use

What must be verified

Check authoritative company records, acquisitions, brand ownership, type-certificate support and active specialist organisations. A company may still operate despite no recent aircraft in this source, while production may have continued under a successor name.

Suggested source line after review: “Sprinkle analysis of current active aircraft records, supplemented by the cited company and successor evidence in the reviewed CSV.”