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FAA asserts that general aviation will begin to grow more steadily in the next 10 to 15 years. Astable environment such as this could enable the system airports to capture a larger share of metropolitan area registrants during the planning period. In addition, future yeazs should show a continued move away from single- and multiengine aircraft, and towards turboprop and business jet aircraft. These larger aircraft tend to locate at airports with more advanced facilities, such as an ILS or MLS. This will also be a factor in the increasing share of metropolitan area registrants at system airports. For projection purposes, the share of metropolitan area registrants based at reliever system airports was increased as shown in Table II-4, resulting in a 2008 based aircraft total of 2,438. In Table I-6, a historical string of based aircraft by reliever airport was given. This string is repeated in Table II-5. With the exception of Flying Cloud and Lake Elmo, each of the airports has experienced a net increase in based aircraft since 1984. This set of data was used to allocate the projected based aircraft to each of the eight system airports. These data were used to develop the allocations of based aircraft to the reliever airports in each of the projection years. Table II~ details the projected based aircraft allocations. The respective shares of the total based aircraft held by each airport were not increased or decreased by substantial amounts. Some minor adjustments were .applied, though, to accouht for .recent growth and Metropolitan Council expectations. (2) Based Aircraft Fleet Mix The airports' existing fleet mixes were developed using data from the Volume 1 of the current Minnesota State Aviation System Plan (Howard, Needles, Tammen, and Bergendoff, January, 1989) and FAA Form 5010. These data were further supported by data from the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS). The current based aircraft fleet mix is shown in Table II-7 (page 1 of 5). II-6