CENTENNIAL, Co. – Schools across the U.S. are starting new training programs to meet the demands of major airlines that are looking for qualified aircraft mechanics. Aviation mechanic technicians are ...

Nathan Cowan, instructor and coordinator for the new North Dakota State College of Science Aviation Maintenance Technology program, stands in front of a Cessna 340 to be used for hands-on instruction ...

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 ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Kieran Cummings has a year of school left, but he’s already making a living repairing commercial jets. After a day of classes at one hangar at the airport here, he heads to another ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The City of Dayton had partnered with Sinclair University and the Dayton International Airport to meet the ever-growing need for aircraft mechanics in the area. On Wednesday, ...

Marine Corps Sgt. Brooke Roper, a fixed-wing power plants mechanic instructor at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Cherry Point, supervises Pfc. Hunter Dority, Lance Cpl. Justin ...

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DULUTH – Kieran Cummings has a year of school left, but he's already making a living repairing commercial jets. After a day of classes at one hangar at the airport here, he heads to another where he ...

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LAKELAND - The dire shortage of air mechanics has led Piper Aircraft to offer incentives for people willing to study for the career. When students of airplane mechanics start classes in October at the ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (7News) — Reporter's Notebook: According to employment forecasts, the aviation industry will need more than 100-thousand new aircraft mechanics over the next 20 years to keep planes ...