Personal flight secrets you don't know yet

Find out some interesting things about personal planes - one of the rich toys of the rich!

Secrets of personal planes

1. The US accounts for 49.7% of the world's individual aircraft market. Europe accounted for 20.8%, Asia Pacific accounted for 11.8%, Latin and South America accounted for 11.6%, Africa and the Middle East accounted for 6.1%.

2. The average price of individual aircraft rental by hour.

Gulfstream 550: $ 8,640

Global Express / XRS: $ 8,045

Falcon 7X: $ 7,865

Falcon 900: $ 6,075

Gulfstream IV: $ 5,884

Challenger 604: $ 5,053

Citation X: $ 4,533

Hawker 800: $ 3,582

Citation Excel / XLS: $ 3,388

Learjet 60: $ 3,347

Citation Mustang: $ 1,674

3. The cost of renting a Gulfstream V for a weekend holiday from New York City to San Francisco is $ 106,711.17. This includes private helicopter transfers to the airport and return, the cost of hiring two captains, a service employee, the cost of landing, parking costs, fuel costs, taxes and other surcharges.

4. The biggest event for individual flights is the Super Bowl event . During the event more than 600 personal planes flew to New Orleans Lakefront Airport to take VIPs to Super Bowl XLVII sports events. Other top events include the Masters Golf Tournament and the Art Basel Miami Beach art exhibition.

5. The average cost of renting a Gulfstream 550 for an hour is $ 8,640. This is enough to buy 74 cheap, two-way Jet Blue tickets, flying from New York to Washington, DC

6. In 2012, more than 259,000 private flights were taken and landed at Van Nuys airport, making the airport the busiest airport in the world. This flow compared with the previous year increased by about 13.9%.

7. One of the world's first private hire aircraft is Smiling Thru . This is a single-class aircraft, the Travel Air Model 6000-B is made by HL Ogg, president of Automatic Washer Company in Newton, Iowa, USA. The aircraft includes seats for five people, one room with demo models and a typing table. Ogg calls this plane the "private office in the sky".

8. The most popular personal aircraft model in the US is the Cessna Citation Excel model . This model is also known by two other names: Citation XLS and XLS +. In 2012, this model took off a total of 144,302 times. The average hourly rent of this model is $ 3,388 / hour.

9. The world's most expensive personal aircraft model, the Airbus A380, was once owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud. Aircraft have an estimated value of over $ 500 million. Some special features of this aircraft include a 2-car garage, a stables and camels, a prayer room capable of rotating to be anywhere in the world, The main face of the temple is also always towards Mecca temple area.

10. Warren Buffett for a long time was a fierce critic of personal flights before his own company Berkshire Hathaway bought his first personal airplane in 1986. This is a model of a used aircraft. and cost about $ 850,000. In 1989, the company resold the aircraft and bought a better model for $ 6.7 million. Buffett later loved the plane so much that he shared with Berkshire shareholders that he felt the idea of 'retiring the plane' was even more cruel than 'retiring a chairman' and joked that he wished to be buried with the plane. In 1998, Berkshire Hathaway bought the aircraft sharing company NetJets.