Fixing and Maintaining Planes
IFA Comment: Modern day museums are so much more than just a collection of objects and many are playing an important role in promoting jobs within aviation engineering and maintenance, inspiring the ‘next generation’.
The Pearl Harbour Aviation Museum have lots of resources including a dedicated page entitled Fixing and Maintaining Planes.
‘Do you prefer to work with your hands and fix things that might be broken? If this describes you, then keep scrolling to find some projects that a mechanic might work on, a game where you get to be a technician for a day or watch videos about aircraft mechanics.
“What are the steps to become an aircraft mechanic?”
TAKE A CLASS OR ENROLL IN A TRAINING PROGRAM
- Aeronautic Maintenance Program at Honolulu Community College
- Aeronautics Maintenance Technology at Honolulu Community College
- Aircraft Mechanic Apprenticeship Program
- How to Become an Aircraft Mechanic
- Aircraft Career Training Program
“Where can I learn more about fixing and maintaining planes?”
PLAY A GAME
Explore These Hands-On Projects
Watch These Videos
- Careers in Aviation: Airline Mechanic.
- Careers in Aviation: Vice President Maintenance and Engineering
- Careers in Aviation: Aircraft Maintenance Technician
- How Women Technicians are Making History
- Female Aviation Technicians Soar to New Heights
- What is an Aircraft Mechanic?
- Aircraft Maintenance Technician Program
- Aviation industry scrambles for mechanics as retirements loom
- Aviation’s race for technicians
- A Day in the Life of Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians
Listen to These Podcasts
- Aviation Podcast.
The Finer Points Of Flying
“How do I pay for my education and training?”
EXPLORE SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES (AVAILABLE TO HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND/OR COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTENDING AN ACCREDITED SCHOOL IN AVIONICS OR AIRCRAFT REPAIR)
- Bendix/King Avionics Scholarship
- Johnny Davis Memorial Scholarship
- Dutch and Ginger Arver Scholarship
- Plane & Pilot Magazine/GARMIN Scholarship
- GARMIN International Scholarship
- Lee Tarbox Memorial Scholarship
- David Arver Memorial Scholarship
- BFGoodrich Component Services Scholarship
- Bud Glover Memorial Scholarship
- Lowell Gaylor Memorial Scholarship
- Universal Avionics Systems Corporation Scholarship
- Rockwell Collins Scholarship
- The Stone Foundation Scholarship
- L-3 Aviation Products Scholarship
- Garmin – Jerry Smith Memorial Scholarship
- Duncan Aviation Scholarship
- Aircell Scholarship
