How many pilots are there?

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

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.

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.

"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 he

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

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

Pete

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??

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.

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.

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?

"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.

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