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757D MQ-8C Organizational Avionics and Electrical Maintenance Technician

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Overview

An MQ-8C Organizational Avionics and Electrical Maintenance Technician performs organizational-level maintenance on MQ-8C systems. The technician maintains MQ-8C data processing, navigation, communications, electrical, and environmental systems.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Core Skills

  • MQ-8C data processing system maintenance
  • Aircraft navigation and communications system maintenance
  • Aircraft electrical and environmental system maintenance

Civilian Career Paths

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Avionics Technicians

Organizational maintenance of MQ-8C data processing, navigation, communications, and electrical systems directly overlaps civilian aircraft electronics maintenance.

How to prepare: Build a maintenance experience portfolio organized by aircraft system, then compare it with avionics openings to identify platform-specific training gaps.

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.

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Maintenance of MQ-8C communications systems provides a foundation for maintaining civilian telecommunications equipment.

How to prepare: Complete a hands-on telecommunications equipment course covering circuit testing and installation of data and telephone equipment.

What the civilian work involves
  • Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other hand tools.
  • Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation.
  • Assemble and install communication equipment such as data and telephone communication lines, wiring, switching equipment, wiring frames, power apparatus, computer systems, and networks.

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (3 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC 757D

    [1] NEC entry "757D - MQ-8C Organizational Avionics and Electrical Maintenance Technician"; cached text line 18067; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: MQ-8C data processing system maintenance, Aircraft navigation and communications system maintenance, Aircraft electrical and environmental system maintenance, Avionics Technicians (O*NET 49-2091.00), Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

  2. O*NET: Avionics Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

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

  3. O*NET: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers (O*NET 49-2022.00)

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