Editing Aircraft pilot (section)

===United States===
In the United States in 2020, there were 691,691 active pilot certificates.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/civil_airmen_statistics/|title=U.S. Civil Airmen Statistics|website=www.faa.gov|language=en-us|access-date=2019-10-17}}</ref> This was down from a high of over 800,000 active pilots in 1980.<ref>{{cite news |last=Evans |first=Jon |url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/22/where-have-all-the-pilots-gone/ |title= Where have all the pilots gone? |work=[[TechCrunch]] |date=2018-04-22 |access-date=2018-04-24 }}</ref> Of the active pilot certificate holders, there were 160,860 Private, 103,879 Commercial, 164,193 Airline Transport, and 222,629 Student.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/civil_airmen_statistics/|title=U.S. Civil Airmen Statistics|website=www.faa.gov|language=en-us|access-date=2020-11-01}}</ref>
  
In 1930, the [[Air Commerce Act]] established pilot licensing requirements for American civil aviation.

Commercial airline pilots in the United States have a mandatory retirement age of 65, having increased from age 60 in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-pilots_15bus.ART0.State.Edition1.2a48e73.html|title=Retirement age raised to 65 in nick of time for pilots turning 60|work=The Dallas Morning News|date=December 15, 2007|access-date=October 15, 2009|last=Maxon|first=Terry}}</ref>