If you have a passion for aviation and enjoy a challenge, you’ll find this hands-on role working with sophisticated military helicopters and their flight crews is extremely rewarding with a level of professional responsibility rarely found in the civilian world. You’ll learn how to handle emergency situations and be responsible for the safety support of crew and passengers.
Job Details
The Aircraft Life Support Fitter is a trade specialist who requires
expertise in the conditioning of and craftsmanship with textile
materials, the fitting of aviation life support systems including
protective flying helmets, aircrew oxygen masks, life preserver
assemblies, life-rafts and aircraft escape/rescue equipment and
other equipment for specific tasks. Knowledge of explosive ordnance
handling and inspection requirements related to rescue pyrotechnics
is required in addition to personnel rescue beacon functional
testing procedures. The types of aircraft that Aircraft Life
Support Fitters will maintain throughout their career are the Bell
206B-1 Kiowa, Bell UH-1H Iroquois, Sikorsky S-70A-9 Black Hawk, and
the CH47 Chinook.
