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Aircraft operations at the Aspen-Pitkin County Airport are down 2.8 percent so far this year, a decline that is in keeping with an ongoing drop in the number of airplanes that come and go locally.
Total aircraft operations through July (the latest numbers available) stood at 22,477. The sum includes all operations, including commercial, private, charter and military aircraft. Operations through the first seven months of 2010 totaled 23,129.
Aircraft operations for all of last year totaled 37,603 — down 5.5 percent from 2009.
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