Course Description

This programme is designed to equip learners with the necessary theoretical knowledge of aircraft maintenance and related mechanical systems at technician level. This is also backed by practical experience in our workshops. Learners attending this course will be prepared to sit for the relative examinations organised by awarding bodies, and which may lead to being awarded the EASA Part-66 Category B1.1 licence. Subject to authorisation by the Part-145 Organization, the licence will permit the holder to issue Certificates of Release to Service following scheduled works that may include line maintenance, defect rectifications, aircraft structure, power plants and mechanical and electrical systems. Throughout the course, Civil Aviation Directorate examination fees will be paid by the learner.

This course is a highly innovative programme in the sector and gives the learner the opportunity to obtain an Advanced Diploma apart from sitting for the EASA examinations. Successful learners can then join the aviation maintenance industry.

Career Prospects

Base Maintenance Technician,
Workshop Technician

Entry Requirements

Internal Progression Route…
Any MCAST MQF level 3 Diploma delivered by the Institute of Engineering and Transport (Applicants must have obtained grades that when averaged will yield an overall Grade B)
or
Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance (incorporating EASA Part-66 Category A Basic Course)
or
EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Category A Licence Course

OR

4 SEC / SSC&P or equivalent with a Pass Grade / Level 3
Compulsory: One subject from Mathematics OR Physics
AND
Compulsory: One subject from Engineering Technology OR Design and Technology OR Chemistry OR Mathematics OR Physics

Applicants must present an official document, showing a positive clearance following a Colour Vision Assessment / Test, as approved by REWS as the Regulatory Authority in this area.

Other Important matters to be noted and considered:

Colour Vision Clearance required when submitting an application for this course

VERY IMPORTANT ATTENTION should you wish to submit a course application for this programme of study (during Main Call for FT Course Admissions, closing on 25 August 2025):

Before you submit an application for this course, you need to download this document (click on download button hereunder).

Print the .pdf document, and take with you to a either the OHSA Office OR else to an Ophthalmologist / General Practitioner of your choice.  This is to be filled in and signed by the Medical Professional Practitioner.  Where applicant is under 18 years of age on date of application the parents / guardians must also fill in and sign the parts related to their consent.

Where the programme of studies Colour Vision Clearance, is also a REWS requirement, it is important that the last page of the document you download, will be filled in and signed accordingly (together with the rest of the doc)

A scan of the filled in and complete document is to be uploaded with all the other documents you need to upload when submitting your online application for the course.  If this completed (properly filled in) document (duly endorsed and signed by a Medical Doctor / GP and Parents as required) is not uploaded with your online application for this course, the application cannot be processed and vetted for eligibility.  It would be as if you have not submitted an application for the course (always by the set Main Call Online Course Application deadline – 25^th August 2025)

Later on after that you will receive the Course Acceptance Offer and would have become an MCAST Registered student, the Original hardcopy version of the filled-in and signed document is ALSO to be (physically) submitted at the Reception Desk, Institute of Engineering and Transport, Main Campus, Paola, by not later than the end of the first full week of lectures of the programme of study you would have been found eligible for and considered as a Registered MCAST student.

May we remind that, not submitting a scan of this filled-in document as an upload with your online course application (applications close on 25^th August 2025), will make your application incomplete and cannot be processed.

When submitting online application for this course, a scan of the original and official Colour Vision Test result needs to be uplaoded together with all other documentation required.

When submitting online application for this course, a scan of the original and official Colour Vision Test result needs to be uplaoded together with all other documentation required.

Upon being found eligible and registered as an MCAST student, one is expected to procure a Uniform, which is to be worn at all times whilst undergoing training on this programme.