My earlier post about instrument ratings by state got some people arguing
about which states had a lot of flight schools. In order to feed the
acrimony, I made up a list of people with instructor ratings by state.
This is all instructors, not just airplane CFI's. For brevity I have
included here only the top ten states.

Naturally, the most populous states tend to have the highest number, with
California and its combination of enormous population and favorable weather
solidly in the lead. Strangely enough, relatively sparsely populated
Washington and Arizona show up in the top ten.

PA 2440
NY 2450
WA 2645
CO 2695
OH 2774
AZ 2827
IL 3004
TX 6248
FL 7213
CA 8426