Thu, Jan 28, 2021
Aviation Maintenance Technician Training Now Available
US Aviation Academy (USAA) has started offering a Part 147 A&P program for students pursuing a career as an Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) beginning January 2021.
The program offers an A&P program with hands-on experience with real aircraft in a Class Delta airport. Providing training at an airport gives students a full immersion environment into the AMT world.
The A&P program is 12 months, compared to some other programs typically lasting as much as two years. Training includes hands-on shop time with removing, rebuilding, fabricating, troubleshooting various aircraft components, along with theory and lecture classes. USAA provides its students with all books, tools and materials necessary for training. The instructors teaching the program have worked on USAA’s fleet of over 120 aircraft including piston and turbine engine aircraft.
“I am excited to see US Aviation branch out into A&P training, the other half of the aviation labor shortage,” said Scott Sykes, Vice President of Business Development. “US Aviation’s been solving the worldwide pilot shortage for 15 years, it’s time we started solving the A&P shortage too.”
Aircraft technicians have a unique opportunity to start earning $50,000 or more by the time they are 20 years old with a path to a six-figure salary as a manager at a large shop. The skills learned in an A&P program are transferable; mechanics can choose to work at places like Disney World, Six Flags, specialty composite/metal shops and more in addition to working at airlines.
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