Airframe and Powerplant Maintenance
Aviation is a sector that requires multidisciplinary work. Today, aircraft and spacecraft have high-tech body and engine structures. Developing technology reveals the need for expert technical staff. Purpose of Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Department; institutions or organizations concerned with aviation maintenance personnel to meet the needs of necessary knowledge and skills with the air vehicle is to train maintenance staff.
Aircraft Maintenance and Repairment Department is a department where detailed knowledge of maintenance practices, piston engines, aircraft structures, aircraft material and equipment information, gas turbine engines, aircraft maintenance terminology, aircraft hydraulic and pneumatic systems expertise is learned and at the same time, it is a department where the basic theoretical courses of the works such as inspection, maintenance and repair of the learned structures and systems are supported by practical trainings.
Graduateds of Aircraft Maintenance and Repairment Department can work in many areas such as aircraft maintenance and repair centers of civil aviation organizations, institutions that produces aircraft parts, defense industry. They carry out maintenance and repair works in the aircrafts' body, structural components, engine and engine-related systems in the maintenance hangars of airports and airline companies. Graduateds of this department can work as an aircraft maintenance technician in aviation related institutions / organizations such as Turkish Airlines, Turkish Air Force, Air Supply Maintenance Centers, myTECHNIC, TUSAŞ (Turkish Aviation and Space Industry), ASELSAN, TEI and Pegasus.
