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Your career in aircraft engineering

An aircraft maintenance engineer is well-paid, in demand and gets to work with aircraft every day. And with a forecast international shortage of licensed engineers, you can look forward to great long-term international career opportunities.

The Aircraft Industry is one of the most tightly regulated in the world. To work on an aircraft requires high levels of training - and to sign off aircraft as being safe for flight, you need a EASA Part 66 licence.

• Our Foundation Degree & EASA Pt 66 Course in Aircraft Engineering prepares you to work towards gaining the EASA Pt 66 B1-Licence. B1-Licenced engineers are authorised to sign off aircraft for flight following line-rectification and maintenance tasks (following additional training). The EASA Pt 66 Basic Training Certificate gained by successful students qualifies them to work on aircraft, and, after working with a EASA Pt 147-approved company for two years, to apply for the B1-Licence.
  
  
• The BEng(Hons) Aircraft Engineering 'top-up' is taught at Kingston University and gives you professional engineer status. It also prepares you to apply for the EASA Pt 66 C-Licence - the most advanced qualification - following further experience in the industry. C-Licence engineers are authorised to release aircraft for service after a complete overhaul.

There are access courses to prepare newcomers to the industry to apply for the Foundation Degree & EASA Pt 66 Course in Aircraft Engineering. And if you are already working in an airline or in the armed services and wish to develop your career, there are degree courses that will take you further.

• Foundation Degree and EASA Pt 66 Course in Aircraft Engineering
• Top-up BEng (Hons) in Aircraft Engineering
• Access courses