Your Next Maintenance Hire May Be in a Kansas Classroom

Textron Aviation is starting apprenticeships for Kansas teenagers who are still in school, and the company will pay them while they learn. The work covers three parts of the trade that owners depend on: airframe-and-powerplant maintenance, avionics, and assembling engines. These are the people who sign off your annual, fix the panel when it goes dark, and build the engine on the nose of the aircraft. For anyone who has waited weeks for a shop slot, an employer recruiting technicians before they finish school is worth noting.

With reporting from AVweb.