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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

"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

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.