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The Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC) is a non-profit trade association that supports aviation maintenance technician education and promotes careers in aviation maintenance.
A healthy but expected increase in newly certificated mechanics last year did not offset momentum lost during the pandemic, leaving the new technician pipeline at least 20 percent...
During its annual board meeting, ATEC directors elected WSU Tech Aviation Program Dean James Hall as new council president. Hall was originally elected to the board in 2017 and...
ATEC recently joined a coalition of more than 30 organizations representing U.S. aviation, trucking, rail, and maritime interests to express support for legislation promoting ...
The PARTT 147 Act, legislation that rewrites Title 14 CFR part 147, is awaiting presidential signature and expected to become law before Christmas. Introduced last December, the...
There is a lot of momentum in Washington for issues that include in their description buzz words like “workforce development,” “career technical education,” and “STEM training...
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ATEC will hold a live webinar on Thursday, May 21 at 2 PM CT, the fourth in a series of webinars intended to assist aviation maintenance technician schools navigate part 147 programs...
A newly-published policy brief provides a thorough history of industry's advocacy efforts to update the rule, and highlights current FAA proposals that would have a toxic impact...
The report’s analysis shows that the 7,363 airframe and powerplant (A&P) certificates issued by the U.S. FAA in 2019 were nearly 10 percent more than in 2018, and the most in ...
The proposal "supplements" the agency's 2015 notice of proposed rulemaking, which recommended removal of static curriculum requirements and allowance for a credit-hour system....
The Federal Aviation Administration has published the long-awaited part 147 supplemental proposed rule for public inspection. The official version will publish in the federal ...
ATEC is now accepting nominations for the James Reardon Aviation Maintenance Technician Student of the Year Award and the Ivan D. Livi Aviation Maintenance Educator of the Year...
The bill contains an entire title focused on workforce development, including a directive to create a federally-funded grant program (see related story) and a provision that will...
