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Hey all, I was a regular here a while back but I've drifted away for various reasons (work, school, music, etc).

I come back for two reasons; one is to check up on FSX, which I'm excited about after checking the screenshots in the new forum.  The 2nd is because I'm stuck on a research project I'm doing for school.  

I'm required to gather a ton of data on commercial aviation, and I've spent hours digging through the BTS website and I've found everything I need except for one item.  What I'm looking for is a table or list of the fleets of the top 9 commercial passenger airlines of 2005.  According to my research these would be:

American Airlines
United Airlines
Delta Airlines
Northwest Airlines
Continental Airlines
Southwest Airlines
US Airways
America West Airlines
Alaska Airlines

I don't necessarily need the aircraft types or configurations, just the actual number of aircraft in service.  I need to arrange this year-by-year, for 10 years, so I need data from 1995-2004/5.

I'm not asking anyone to do my work for me, but I thought someone here might have a clue where I could find this data.  I've googled and googled and searched through countless pages but I can't seem to find what I need.  

I've found this site: http://www.airsafe.com/events/usfleet.htm which I assume is the current fleets, and this is great info, but I need 10 years worth of it.

ANY help would be great in this, I'm pulling my hair out trying to find this last piece of data and I'm starting to run out of time so I'm desperate.

Thanks!

What I always find very useful for stuff like this is Wikipedia. For instance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines

Cool, I appreciate that, and I'll definately follow through on that lead.  However, I don't know if I can actually use wikipedia information since the instructor wanted "official" type sources, such as the Department of Transportation site, which has proved useless in this matter.  

Thanks again

http://airfleets.net/flottecie/American%20Airlines.htm

I dont know if that is an official source, but hey! It was worth a bash

Born 2 fly

Yeah I actually found that site already.

Anyway, I ended up finding the data in the yearly financial reports.  It took a while and a lot of searching through boring documents, but its finished, and the project did good.  Thanks for trying!  ;D