Maintenance and Modifications
Duncan Looks To Future with Formalized Apprenticeships
The 24-month program offers apprentices a paying job and formalized training to receive their FAA certification.
Duncan Aviation's Matt Stolz, center, leads a tour of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based MRO provider's training area that it established for its airframe technician apprenticeship program. (Photo: Duncan Aviation)
Duncan Aviation's Matt Stolz, center, leads a tour of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based MRO provider's training area that it established for its airframe technician apprenticeship program. (Photo: Duncan Aviation)

Beginning this year, Duncan Aviation will launch a formalized apprenticeship program that will offer paying jobs to apprentices while preparing them over a year and a half for an FAA license as airframe technicians. The new program is an outgrowth of an effort the Lincoln, Nebraska-based MRO provider began several years ago to offer on-the-job training and instruction to new hires and existing workers interested in becoming A&Ps. “The apprentice program has been very important to us,” Duncan president and CEO Aaron Hilkemann told AIN.