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5952 Air Traffic Control Navigational Aids Technician

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Overview

An air traffic control navigational aids technician surveys sites, installs navigational aids and instrument landing systems, and performs inspections and preventive maintenance. The technician diagnoses faults, replaces failed components, verifies repairs, supports flight inspections, maintains equipment and records, and trains less qualified personnel.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: EL 110

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-19

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: navmc-1200-1l-fy26 (source date 2025-03). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Navigation equipment site surveys and installation
  • Instrument landing system tuning and alignment
  • Fault isolation and repair verification
  • Technical support during system flight inspections

Civilian Career Paths

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Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Installing navigation equipment, isolating faults, replacing failed components, and verifying repairs transfer directly to commercial electronics maintenance.

How to prepare: Build a troubleshooting portfolio showing fault symptoms, diagnostic steps, component replacement, and verification results, using only releasable maintenance examples.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test faulty equipment to diagnose malfunctions, using test equipment or software, and applying knowledge of the functional operation of electronic units and systems.
  • Maintain equipment logs that record performance problems, repairs, calibrations, or tests.
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Avionics Technicians

Navigation-system alignment, component fault isolation, and flight-inspection support provide relevant experience for avionics testing and repair.

How to prepare: Take a hands-on avionics course covering aircraft electronic components and their test procedures to bridge the gap from ground navigation systems. For openings requiring an FAA mechanic certificate, FAA must evaluate documented military experience against the applicable rating requirements.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test and troubleshoot instruments, components, and assemblies, using circuit testers, oscilloscopes, or voltmeters.
  • Adjust, repair, or replace malfunctioning components or assemblies, using hand tools or soldering irons.
  • Set up and operate ground support and test equipment to perform functional flight tests of electrical and electronic systems.

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    Document foundational knowledge of circuits, electronic theory, test equipment, and electronics work procedures.

    For: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment, Avionics Technicians

  • General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

    Support avionics work involving maintenance, adjustment, or internal repair of FCC-licensed aviation radiotelephone transmitters.

    Eligibility and preparation: Satisfactory knowledge of FCC rules, ability to send and receive spoken messages correctly in English, and passing written Elements 1 and 3 or receiving credit.

    For: Avionics Technicians

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (8 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 5952

    [1] MOS 5952 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 47801; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Navigation equipment site surveys and installation, Instrument landing system tuning and alignment, Fault isolation and repair verification, Technical support during system flight inspections, Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00), Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00)

  2. O*NET: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  3. O*NET: Avionics Technicians

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00)

  4. FAA: Become an Aviation Mechanic

    [4] Requirements and mechanic experience requirements

    Supports: Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00)

  5. COOL credential mapping: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    [5] 5952 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    [6]ETA International: Associate Certified Electronics Technician · CETa description and CETa Exam Info; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

  6. COOL credential mapping: General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

    [7] 5952 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

  7. eCFR: 47 CFR 13.201 - Qualifying for a commercial operator license or endorsement (FCC)

    [8] sec. 13.201(a) and (b)(2); eCFR current through issue date 2026-09-21, text retrieved 2026-09-23 via eCFR API

    Supports: General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

  8. eCFR: 47 CFR 13.203 - Examination elements (FCC commercial radio operators)

    [9] sec. 13.203(a)(1)-(2); eCFR current through 2026-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-23 via eCFR API

    Supports: General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

Defense contractor jobs for 5952

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