Family Motor Coach Association

The Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) is an international organization of families who own and enjoy the recreational use of motorhomes. Since 1963, FMCA has issued more than 425,000 memberships to families who look to the association as their source of information about all facets of motorhome ownership and travel. FMCA is a member-owned association that maintains its headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States and employs a full-time office staff. FMCA is governed by volunteer officers who are elected from within the ranks of the association.

On July 20, 1963, 26 families met at the Good Will-Hinckley School in Hinckley, Maine, United States to socialize and become acquainted with other "house car" owners. They decided to form a motor coach owners' common interest group. A monument to commemorate the founding was dedicated at the school on July 4, 1994.

Membership in FMCA is contingent upon ownership of a motorhome — a self-propelled, completely self-contained vehicle that contains all the conveniences of a home, including cooking, sleeping, and permanent sanitary facilities, and in which the driver’s area is accessible in a walking position from the living quarters. These can be original-manufacture motorhomes, or conversions from other types of vehicle, of which buses are the most common.

FMCA has more than 100,000 members from every state of the U.S.A as well as Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, and beyond. FMCA also has roughly 2,500 commercial members — dealers, suppliers, manufacturers, campgrounds, service facilities, and other firms servicing the motorhome owner or the motorhome industry. Most members are only occasional users, while others live in their coaches full-time.

Every member of FMCA agrees to follow the Association’s Code of Ethics, which requires members to comply with all federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing the ownership and use of family motor coaches. The Code of Ethics also calls for members to be "good neighbors, careful and responsible coach owners and operators, and good citizens of our communities."

The purpose of FMCA is to organize social activities, exchange motorhome information, and supply benefits made possible, in part, by collective purchasing. The group publishes Family Motor Coaching, a monthly magazine. It provides news concerning motorhome technology, the RV industry, and the association. FMCA members can be identified by the FMCA “goose egg," or membership emblem, displayed on their motorhome.

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