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.

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Strengthen the Organization

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Serve the Membership

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Strengthen the brand

• Create and disseminate professional materials​ 

Improve infrastructure

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

Promote

• Increase speaking presence
• Hold regional outreach meetings
• Facilitate congressional visits
• ​Increase readership
• ​Enhance social media presence

Advocate

• Participate in ACS development
• Implement the new part 147
• Increase DME availability
• Facilitate high school partnerships

Ensure stability

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

Grow contact base

• Increase contact base and segment representation
• ​Increase exchange memberships
• Obtain multiple contacts for each member company

Provide Resources

• Create model curriculum
• Create model operations manual
• Hold educational webinars
• Enhance preferred provider network

Network

• Increase Fly-in registrations
• Increase annual conference registrations
• Hold successful employer link and career fair
• Increase exhibitors