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Old 4th May 2005, 21:45
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Number on the register

Out of curiosity, does anyone know
a) how many aircraft are on the UK register, and
b) how many pilots hold a UK license?
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Old 4th May 2005, 22:00
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(A) About 16,000 plus another 2,000 or so gliders. Subtract about 1500 airliners.

(B) No idea, but if you get no answer in a few days I have that somewhere.

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This is all the pilots with a valid medical cert. in 2004, shown seperated by licence type, sex and aircraft type.

http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/175/srg_fc...sex_age_04.pdf
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From a recent lecture I went to, the UK has 140 aircraft per million population, 200 reported accidents per million hours, of which about 10 are fatal.

There are roughly 2.9 licenced pilots per thousand population.

So that's just under 21 pilots per aeroplane.

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It's going to get awfully crowded in my little cockpit with 20 others, Genghis.
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Ta for the numbers Genghis & LondonJ - but summat don't add-up like !!!

Taking your numbers Genghis, of 2.9 pilots per 1000, that makes about 162k pilots total, (and the 21 per plane then makes sense), but your original number is about 18k pilots. LondonJ's number from the PDF report is about 44k.

Planes: 140 per 1k pop works out to less than 8k planes, but you reckon there are about 16k.....

Hmmmm......wonder which numbers are right


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Remember that you are comparing different data sets. The pdf file has pilots who are holding a current medical. The other stats might refer to non-current pilots as wellor something like that.
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