Aircraft mechanic training options include apprenticeships at flight schools or mechanic shops, dedicated mechanic schools, and university degree programs. When choosing an apprenticeship, prioritize ...

With the average age of airplane mechanics in the Northland at 55, the need for a younger work force is growing -- especially in a region that also has a growing aviation industry, a state official ...

Students listen during an Amazon evening Airframe & Powerplant maintenance training class this week. A career fixing Amazon’s cargo planes just got a lot less expensive to obtain. To address an ...

Thrust Flight, an aviation training company, has launched a new Aircraft & Powerplant (A&P) mechanic school in Conroe, Texas, as well as a new FAA-approved aircraft dispatcher program at its Addison ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- There is a dire shortage of aviation mechanics. According to numbers from Boeing, the global industry needs to recruit more than 600,000 maintenance technicians by 2041. The ...

Aims Community College student Kira Davis-Weber prefers working with her hands over sitting in a classroom. She’d rather look inside of a machine with dirt under her fingernails than type at a ...

PHOENIX – The Aviation Institute of Maintenance recently opened a new campus in a former call center near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The aircraft mechanic school is located at the ...

Notable year-over-year upticks in FAA-issued mechanic certificates and enrollment at certified training schools are positive trends, but more workforce pipeline growth is needed to meet projected ...

Jacksonville City Council member Nick Howland is pitching the Jacksonville Aviation Authority on bankrolling an aviation training center that would prepare people to work as aircraft maintenance ...