The Flightplan

The Aviation Technician Education Council (ATEC) was founded in 1961. Its mission is to promote and support aviation maintenance technician education. 

To that end, the Board of Directors maintains a three-year strategic plan to support the organization's mission, and guide its activities and delegation of resources. It is regularly reviewed and revised, members are encouraged to provide feedback.

The Flightplan is a visionary product, providing a pathway to enable the aviation maintenance technician education community to meet the aerospace industry’s workforce needs.

An overview is below, more detailed information is available here.

Strengthen the Organization

Serve the Membership

Strengthen the brand

  • Create new logo
  • Releases new website
  • Create catalog of propoganda

Improve infrastructure

  • Enhance e-commerce
  • Simplify subscriptions
  • Implement CMS
  • Support automatic renewals
  • Support online profile updates
  • Create mobile applications

Promote

  • Increase speaking presence
  • Hold regional outreach meetings
  • Facilitate congressional visits
  • Introduce ATEC to U.S. Congress
  • Increase readership
  • ​Create social media presence

Advocate

  • Participate in ACS development
  • Implement the new part 147
  • Increase DME availability
  • Engage Dept. of Ed
  • Draft FAA guidance on high school partnerships

Ensure stability

  • Increase non-dues revenue 60%
  • Build nine months of reserves
  • Fund majority of operations with member dues

Grow contact base

  • Increase contact base by 30%
  • Add FAA field office contacts
  • Add airline and MRO contacts
  • ​Initiate exchange memberships
  • Obtain multiple contacts for each member company

Provide Resources

  • Create model curriculum
  • Built graduate portal
  • Create model operations manual
  • Hold educational webinars
  • Create model pipeline program
  • Create FAA co-authored content
  • Create three new preferred providers

Network

  • Increase Fly-in registrations 30%
  • Increase annual conference registrations 15%
  • Hold successful employer expo
  • Increase exhibitors 60%