Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
I don't think membership numbers are announced till near the end of the year. Lots of people don't renew till summer or even later so it is likely actually less than last year right now, but will be larger near the end of the year.
AMA noted 187,000 members recently, but as some have noted they don't believe anything that the AMA says, so it's unclear what it would take other than a third party audit to confirm that. And that would cost money to do, and then the complaints would come in about that expenditure.