PLANE TALK
The DOT was faithful to the system also and ran it throughout the war years. After WWII, as the civilian industry boomed. The title air engineer was changed to aircraft maintenance engineer. (In Canada we normally do not add licensed in front of AME as many other countries do, we just accept it is there.)
The formation of AME associations was a step forward led by the Atlantic Region AMEs. Ben McCarty and Lorne Amos led this effort. John Mew, who was the chief of manufacturing and maintenance for Transport Canada in the national headquarters, created an advisory council for AME licensing and training, another milestone. Next was the recommendation by the Justice Dubin Commission
to license avionics technicians as AMEs.
This took place in the early 1980s during the time that I was responsible for all AME licensing and training (among other duties) as the chief of manufacturing and maintenance in Ottawa. Mew had assumed another chief’s job which was to write Canada’s new aviation regulations. During the late 1980s, Gordon
DuPont and Gerry Wolfe were tasked to prepare a report on the future of AME licensing. This they did and it became a roadmap for many of the future changes. By 1992 I had moved out to the Western Region and Don Sherritt took over in Ottawa to become the first director of manufacturing and maintenance in the Ottawa
headquarters. Between Don and Tony Soulis, chief of AME licensing and training, they managed the transition to the current Canadian system. The Canadian Aviation Maintenance Council was formed in the late 1980s after some initiative taken by Transport Canada and Immigration and Employment Canada to try and entice more people into aviation. This was done in recognition that many aviation trades had no national standards. This work continues today although CAMC has expanded into aerospace and flight training areas of activity. It is now known as the Canadian Aerospace and Aviation Council. Thanks to their support, I began to write about maintenance technicians and AME history in Canada.
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