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6338 Aircraft Avionics Technician, F-35

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Overview

An F-35 Aircraft Avionics Technician installs, removes, inspects, tests, maintains, and repairs aircraft avionics equipment at the OMA level. The technician works on communications, navigation, radar, electrical, and deceptive electronic countermeasures systems and their components and ancillary equipment.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: CL 105 or EL 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

  • Deceptive electronic countermeasures system maintenance
  • Aircraft communications and navigation system repair
  • Installed radar system inspection and testing
  • Aircraft electrical component installation and removal

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.

Avionics Technicians

Installing, testing, and repairing F-35 communications, navigation, radar, and electrical systems transfers directly to civilian aircraft avionics maintenance.

How to prepare: Map your documented component installation, testing, and repair experience to civilian avionics openings to identify equipment-specific training gaps. For work maintaining, adjusting, or internally repairing FCC-licensed aviation radiotelephone transmitters, plan for the General Radiotelephone Operator License.

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.
  • Install electrical and electronic components, assemblies, and systems in aircraft, using hand tools, power tools, or soldering irons.

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Inspecting, testing, and repairing installed aircraft electrical and electronic components provides a foundation for commercial and industrial equipment repair.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on industrial electronics course focused on testing and diagnosing equipment outside aircraft systems.

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.
  • Set up and test industrial equipment to ensure that it functions properly.
  • Inspect components of industrial equipment for accurate assembly and installation or for defects, such as loose connections or frayed wires.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Circuit evaluation software
  • Computerized maintenance management system CMMS

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • ASTM NCATT Aircraft Electronics Technician (AET)

    Validate aircraft electronics fundamentals and maintenance knowledge for civilian avionics work.

    Eligibility and preparation: No mandatory education, experience, or prior certification is required to take the examination.

    For: Avionics Technicians

  • General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

    Support aviation radio transmitter maintenance and repair work within the license's scope.

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

    For: Avionics Technicians

  • Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

    Validate foundational circuits, test-equipment, and electrical theory knowledge when preparing to repair industrial electronics.

    For: Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (9 documents)
  1. NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 6338

    [1] MOS 6338 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 52285; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01

    Supports: Deceptive electronic countermeasures system maintenance, Aircraft communications and navigation system repair, Installed radar system inspection and testing, Aircraft electrical component installation and removal, Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00), Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment (O*NET 49-2094.00)

  2. O*NET: Avionics Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

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

    [3] 6338 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00), General Radiotelephone Operator License (PG)

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

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

  5. COOL credential mapping: ASTM NCATT Aircraft Electronics Technician (AET)

    [5] 6338 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Aircraft Electronics Technician (AET)

  6. SpaceTEC Partners, Inc.: Qualifications for ASTM NCATT Certifications

    [6] Sole qualifications statement on page; retrieved 2026-09-23

    Supports: ASTM NCATT Aircraft Electronics Technician (AET)

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

    [7] 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)

    [8] 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)

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

    [9] 6338 cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

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

    Supports: Associate Electronics Technician (CETa)

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