How many pilots are there?

[bangbang]

Just curious - does anyone know about how many licensed pilots there
are in the US?

I believe AOPA claims membership of about 400,000 - I wonder what
percentage of licensed pilots that represents?

Thanks.

-bb

[Larry Dighera]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:24:45 -0800, bangbang >
wrote in Message-Id: >:

>Just curious - does anyone know about how many licensed pilots there
>are in the US?
>
>I believe AOPA claims membership of about 400,000 - I wonder what
>percentage of licensed pilots that represents?

AOPA membership would represent about 2/3rds of US Pilots.

[G.R. Patterson III]

bangbang wrote:
>
> I believe AOPA claims membership of about 400,000 - I wonder what
> percentage of licensed pilots that represents?

Infinity. There are no licensed pilots in the U.S.

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can
be learned no other way.

[Mackfly]

>From: bangbang

>Just curious - does anyone know about how many licensed pilots there
>are in the US?

Lets count em uo--one certificated one here. mac

[EDR]

In article >, G.R. Patterson III
> wrote:

> Infinity. There are no licensed pilots in the U.S.

Does anyone remember when the government changed the wording from
license to certificate?

[Greg Burkhart]

"EDR" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, G.R. Patterson III
> > wrote:
>
> > Infinity. There are no licensed pilots in the U.S.
>
> Does anyone remember when the government changed the wording from
> license to certificate?

Has it??? Doing a search for 'license' on the faa.gov website lists 30
documents/FAQ's where license and certificate are both used interchangeably.

[bangbang]

In article >, Larry Dighera
> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 01:24:45 -0800, bangbang >
> wrote in Message-Id: >:
>
> >Just curious - does anyone know about how many licensed pilots there
> >are in the US?
> >
> >I believe AOPA claims membership of about 400,000 - I wonder what
> >percentage of licensed pilots that represents?
>
> AOPA membership would represent about 2/3rds of US Pilots.

Really? I thought I recalled from somewhere that AOPA membership
included roughly 1/2 of US pilots.

I suppose I should just give Phil a call - I bet they have these
numbers handy.

[Mike Weller]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:04:15 GMT, EDR > wrote:

>In article >, G.R. Patterson III
> wrote:
>
>> Infinity. There are no licensed pilots in the U.S.
>
>Does anyone remember when the government changed the wording from
>license to certificate?

It had to be before 1967. See

http://www.welleraviation.com/newpage1.htm

Mike Weller

[Peter Duniho]

"bangbang" > wrote in message
...
> > AOPA membership would represent about 2/3rds of US Pilots.
>
> Really? I thought I recalled from somewhere that AOPA membership
> included roughly 1/2 of US pilots.

They did. When there were fewer members. There are about 650,000
certificated pilots in the US. At just over 400,000 AOPA represents a
little less than two-thirds of those pilots. Of course, not all AOPA
members are certificated pilots, but I'm guessing the error due to that is
small.

> I suppose I should just give Phil a call - I bet they have these
> numbers handy.

If you're a member, you should be able to look here:

http://www.aopa.org/special/newsroom/stats/pilots.html

(possibly non-members can too...I don't know)

Pete

[G.R. Patterson III]

EDR wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember when the government changed the wording from
> license to certificate?

That question contains the assumption that the U.S. government did issue
licenses at one time. When was this?

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can
be learned no other way.

[Icebound]

Peter Duniho wrote:
>... There are about 650,000
> certificated pilots in the US. ...

The FAA statistics at

http://api.hq.faa.gov/airmen/AIR1-97.pdf

show a drop from just over 700,000 in 1990 to just under 620,000 in
1998. 15% drop in private pilots in that period.

Has there been a resurgence in activity in the last 5 years??

[G.R. Patterson III]

Icebound wrote:
>
> Has there been a resurgence in activity in the last 5 years??

That drop in pilot activity was the main driver behind the establishment of the
"Young Eagles" program by the EAA in 1992 and, a few years later, the "Mentor"
program by AOPA. Those certainly *should* have produced a bit of a resurgence.

George Patterson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned
no other way.

[No Such User]

In article >, bangbang wrote:
>Just curious - does anyone know about how many licensed pilots there
>are in the US?
>
A query of the downloadable database shows a total of 541,598.
This includes a small number of duplicates, and does not include an
unknown number of pilots that have asked not to be listed. It does
not include pilots without current medicals. It does include student
pilots.

>I believe AOPA claims membership of about 400,000 - I wonder what
>percentage of licensed pilots that represents?
>
That would be 73.8% if all AOPA members have current medicals, which
is unlikely.