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6212 Fixed-Wing Aircraft Mechanic, AV-8/TAV-8

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Overview

An AV-8 and TAV-8 fixed-wing aircraft mechanic inspects, services, maintains, and repairs aircraft airframes and their components. These mechanics also work on power plants, transmissions, fuel systems, and flight line operations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: CL 105 or MM 105

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

  • Aircraft power plant and transmission repair
  • Aircraft fuel system servicing and repair
  • Airframe and airframe component inspection

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

AV-8/TAV-8 experience inspecting, servicing, and repairing airframes, power plants, transmissions, and fuel systems directly overlaps civilian aircraft maintenance.

How to prepare: Gather documentary evidence of your military maintenance experience for FAA review toward Airframe and Powerplant ratings. FAA certification requires age 18, English proficiency, knowledge, oral, and practical tests, and either 18 months of appropriate experience for one rating, 30 months concurrently for both, graduation from an FAA-approved Aviation Maintenance Technician School, or completion of the Joint Service Aviation Maintenance Technician Certification Council course; air carriers often require certification even though it is not an FAA requirement for every airline mechanic job.

What the civilian work involves
  • Read and interpret maintenance manuals, service bulletins, and other specifications to determine the feasibility and method of repairing or replacing malfunctioning or damaged components.
  • Examine and inspect aircraft components, including landing gear, hydraulic systems, and deicers to locate cracks, breaks, leaks, or other problems.
  • Maintain repair logs, documenting all preventive and corrective aircraft maintenance.

Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers

Military airframe and component inspection and repair experience transfers to checking, adjusting, and reworking aircraft assemblies.

How to prepare: Practice reading aircraft production blueprints to identify part relationships and assembly sequences before applying for assembly roles.

What the civilian work involves
  • Read blueprints, illustrations, or specifications to determine layouts, sequences of operations, or identities or relationships of parts.
  • Inspect or test installed units, parts, systems, or assemblies for fit, alignment, performance, defects, or compliance with standards, using measuring instruments or test equipment.
  • Adjust, repair, rework, or replace parts or assemblies to ensure proper operation.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6212

    [1] MOS 6212 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 50649; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Aircraft power plant and transmission repair, Aircraft fuel system servicing and repair, Airframe and airframe component inspection, Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians (O*NET 49-3011.00), Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers (O*NET 51-2011.00)

  2. O*NET: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians (O*NET 49-3011.00)

  3. FAA: Become an Aviation Mechanic

    [3] Requirements and mechanic experience requirements

    Supports: Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians (O*NET 49-3011.00)

  4. O*NET: Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers (O*NET 51-2011.00)

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