After World War I, some countries used airplanes for industrial and agricultural production one after another, which opened the curtain for general aviation. After 1920, a large number of private jets appeared in the United States and Europe, and some large companies and enterprises began to use their own planes to provide transportation services for senior employees, resulting in business aviation. In order to provide services for private and corporate aircraft such as maintenance and refueling, buying and selling second-hand aircraft, aircraft leasing, etc., airport-based navigation service stations have appeared in the United States, forming a complete general aviation supply and demand market.

After the Second World War, due to the rapid development of aviation technology and the conversion of a large number of aircraft to civilian use, general aviation has developed rapidly and its application fields are more extensive. In addition to doing more work in agriculture, it has also developed air tour services and other businesses. 1950, helicopters entered the general aviation market, greatly expanding the scope of general aviation servers, and began to provide offshore oil platforms, rescue, communication, aerial hanging and other services in mountainous areas or areas without airports. Due to the emergence of multinational companies, business aviation has also developed greatly.

Then, in the 1980s, due to the global economic recession, general aviation aircraft was relatively saturated, technological innovation was reduced, and national restrictions on general aviation aircraft manufacturers made general aviation begin to decline and fall into a trough.

Since the 1990s, with the sustained growth of the world economy, the government's encouraging policies and the innovation of aviation products, general aviation recovered and re-emerged in the second half of the 1990s.