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Marine Corps MOS · Aviation

6216 Fixed-Wing Aircraft Mechanic, KC-130

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Overview

A Fixed-Wing Aircraft Mechanic for the KC-130 inspects, services, maintains, and repairs aircraft airframes, components, power plants, transmissions, and fuel systems. This mechanic also performs duties related to flight line operations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: EL 100 or MM 100

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 maintenance
  • Aircraft fuel system inspection and repair
  • Airframe and component inspection and repair

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

KC-130 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. Certification requires age 18 or older, English proficiency, passing knowledge, oral, and practical tests, and either qualifying experience of 18 months for one rating or 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 training course.

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

KC-130 airframe and component inspection and repair experience transfers to aircraft assembly inspection, adjustment, and rework.

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

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

  • Air carriers often require an FAA mechanic certificate for hiring, although it is not an FAA regulatory requirement for every airline mechanic job.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6216

    [1] MOS 6216 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 50780; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Aircraft power plant and transmission maintenance, Aircraft fuel system inspection and repair, Airframe and component inspection and repair, 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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Predecessor codes

Historical codes with documented links to 6216. Each history page explains the change.

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