Plus, at any given time how many "Hornet pilots" or "P-3 NFOs" are actually actively flying their native airframes? How would you count, say, a helo pilot who's flying T-6s in the Tracom? Or a two-star who grew up in Hornets but hasn't actually flown one in ten years?
...I'm not sure how you could add that up for the Navy...look at the AQDs of every 13XX on active duty, I guess?
It can be done, both the articles I noted had precise total numbers of folks in the respective communities. It is obviously not readily available info but the authors were able to get the numbers for their articles from the Navy, the
Proceedings article was about the ratio of Admirals to each aviation community and the
Navy Times was about the percentage of women in each community. That is why I like the Marine Aviation Plan, that has definitive numbers and is obviously authoritative instead of just WAG'ing it like we are here.
Even with just the overall numbers though it would still give you a pretty good idea of the size of the respective communities to include those flying operationally.
Original link is a French site (
http://cigeography.blogspot.fr/2015/05/USNavy-aircrafts-sheet.html?m=1 ), and it might be NMCI, but the site shows Asian and Russian text as well. Color me suspicious of a cool thing that effectively maps out all of Naval Aviation for a poster.
Definitely foreign, 'aircrafts' is a dead giveaway.
The chart I am think of that had all the ships was from 20 or so years ago and was at least sorta semi-official, I saw it all over and it was accurate. This site took that idea and is expanding to everything from the Swedish Navy to naval guns, it is almost identical in style to the older posters I remember.
