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 ...

As the nation faces an ongoing shortage of mechanics, a number of training programs are focusing on preparing the next ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airplanes connect rural Alaska to the world, and all those planes need mechanics to maintain and fix them. The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta has a severe shortage of aircraft mechanics, and it’s expected that ...

An ambitious Metro Transit training program for desperately needed light-rail mechanics — thought to be the first of its kind in the nation — has lapsed for now, its future unclear. Faced with a ...

Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises (PRIDE Enterprises), an inmate training company operating in Florida correctional facilities, recently launched a diesel mechanic training ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — The YMCA of Kingston and Ulster County’s bicycle mechanics training program for youths aged 14-24 will return to Midtown in 2023 after a COVID-19 pandemic-related hiatus. The program ...