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Do all contractors require A&P licenses for performing maintenance on Military Aircraft? I've been tryint to go down range for over a year now and I'm getting stone walled everytime. I have F-4 and F-16 maintenance experience as well as KC-135 Ops experience. I am currently a contract manager for Transient Alert but, this contract does not require A&P. Why do others?

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Depends on the Company and type of contract i would think...But strange that they require you to have the A&P....What company if you dont mind me asking. I know alot of companys ask for it but if your creditals are in order and you dont have one should not be an issue.

I'm currently working for L3 and they don't require an A&P. I also know that the civil service side of the doesn't reqiure one either. Sound kinda strange, kinda.

Lockheed Martin & Dyncorp. Are there other's who are major contractors I don't know about that are not so stringent ? L3 really? I thought they were mostly connected with computer geek contracts.
I tried to get a job with URS in Florida but, they turned me down because they wanted the experience to be recent. Shortly after that I got hooked up with a contract manager position and they didn't care how long it had been since I had worked on the flight line. They were more impressed with my overall experience not just the one thing.

For maintenance on US military aircraft, you don't "need" an A&P license at all--I've never seen that included in any of the contracts I've read. The civilian company may require one as a part of their hiring standards/practices to ensure you have some credentials, but as mentioned earlier, L3 and DynCorp (now CSC as of last week) do not. If you have ample Air Force (or Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard) training and have your AFTO 623's up to date, you shouldn't need an A&P license (though if you have enough appropriate training, the FAA will let you just test to get your A&P without going to school-email me if you have questions about that process, cause it worked out well for me to get my A&P).
When I was an avionics engineer with Midwest Airlines, some of their junior maintenance technicians (structural and avionics) didn't have A&P licenses either (but then they weren't allowed to sign off their own work, which meant another "qualified" person had to be there witnessing the work performed). The A&P license is an FAA requirement for Part 43 (Aircraft Maintenance), Part 121 operators (Commercial Airlines), Part 135 (Air Taxi and Air Charter), and Part 145 (Repair Stations).

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I am in need of instuctors. Do you have any experience in the classroom and are you able/qualified to do an engine run course?

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PSI65, why not just get your A&P. You have the experience. Just get someone to sign you off to go take the tests. All the questions for the written tests are available at most pilot shops (like sportys) and you shouldn't have any problem with the practical tests.

In 2000 I went to get my test slips. Took both my F-16 and F-117 623's. Tons of documented engine experience including eng run. Sorry, you don't have any engine experience that we would consider. I was told I had to go to the powerplant part of the course. Haven't messed with it since. Been lucky enough to not need it (for the most part). It does limit you when military stuff dries up.

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