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Marine Corps MOS · Aviation

6217 Fixed-Wing Aircraft Mechanic, F/A-18

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Overview

An F/A-18 fixed-wing aircraft mechanic inspects, services, maintains, and repairs aircraft airframes, components, power plants, transmissions, and fuel systems. The mechanic also performs duties related to 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 powerplant and transmission repair
  • Aircraft fuel system inspection and maintenance
  • Flight line operations support

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

F/A-18 airframe, powerplant, transmission, and fuel system inspection and repair directly overlap with civilian aircraft maintenance.

How to prepare: Gather military maintenance experience records for FAA evaluation toward Airframe and Powerplant ratings. Air carriers often require the certificate for hiring, although it is not an FAA regulatory 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

F/A-18 airframe and component inspection and repair provide a foundation for aircraft assembly, rework, and installed-part inspection.

How to prepare: Practice reading aircraft production blueprints and using them to plan a component assembly sequence.

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

  • FAA mechanic certification requires age 18 or older, English proficiency, and passing knowledge, oral, and practical tests. The experience route requires 18 months appropriate to one rating or 30 months concurrently covering both; alternatives include an FAA-approved Aviation Maintenance Technician School or the Joint Service Aviation Maintenance Technician Certification Council course.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6217

    [1] MOS 6217 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 50830; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Aircraft powerplant and transmission repair, Aircraft fuel system inspection and maintenance, Flight line operations support, 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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