Handbook of Occupational Groups and Families		Classification Programs Division
Release Date:  August 2001		Section Sixty-three of Sixty-six

    8800 - AIRCRAFT OVERHAUL FAMILY   

This job family includes occupations concerned primarily with the overhaul of aircraft, including the disassembly, reassembly, and test phases of aircraft overhaul programs. Specialized work primarily involved in maintaining and repairing single aircraft systems, engines, or accessories should be coded to the appropriate job family for the kind of work done.

Throughout the following information, an asterisk (*) stands for series with a published standard and a double asterisk (**) stands for series with a published flysheet.

Occupations in this family are:

8810 Aircraft Propeller Mechanic

This occupation includes jobs that involve troubleshooting, repairing, adjusting, overhauling, modifying, testing, and servicing aircraft propeller assemblies and their components, and straightening propeller blades. The work requires an overall knowledge of hydraulic, electric, and mechanical controls and drive mechanisms and their subassemblies, and of the interrelationships of the mechanisms, valves, synchrophasers, and other components of the complete propeller assembly.

8840 Aircraft Mechanical Parts Repairing*

This standard occupation includes jobs involved in the repair, modification, overhaul/recondition, and test of mechanical parts and components removed from fixed and rotary wing aircraft such as control columns, transmissions, gear boxes, landing gear components, clutch assemblies, rotor head assemblies and blades, constant speed drives, mechanical actuators, wheel and rotor blade assemblies, cargo hooks, engine controls, cable tension regulators, accessory drive gear boxes, cargo winches, turbine blades, and compressor vanes. The work requires knowledge of the mechanical relationships and operational characteristics of mechanical parts and components being repaired or reworked. The work does not require a substantive knowledge of aircraft systems and their interrelationships.

8852 Aircraft Mechanic*

This occupation includes jobs involved in the maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, and modification of fixed and rotary wing aircraft systems, airframes, components, and assemblies. The work requires a substantive knowledge of the airframe and aircraft mechanical, pneudralic, and/or electrical systems and their interrelationships. Aircraft worked on include a variety of models, are single and multi-engine types, and have reciprocating and jet engines.

8862 Aircraft Attending*

This occupation includes jobs concerned with arrival, parking, servicing, and departure of military, civilian, or foreign aircraft. Work includes meeting incoming aircraft, guiding aircraft into parking position, securing aircraft in parking position, assembling and operating ground support equipment such as power supply and engine starting units, and servicing the systems of the aircraft with needed supplies of oil, fuel, greases, oxygen, etc.

8882 Airframe Test Operating

This occupation includes jobs involved in setting up and operating equipment to test the structural integrity of airframes or other similar structures such as re-entry vehicles. Includes assembling and disassembling test structures, constructing and erecting test jigs, and installing test devices and supporting electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic equipment. The work requires a knowledge of airframe assembly, structural steel jig building and handling, tension patch forming and attachment, load application methods, and load measuring devices and their adjustment; ability to understand test objectives and relationships among airframe, jig, loading devices, and load measuring instruments; and knowledge of the sequence, methods, and procedures of test operations.