CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – (CLARKSVILLENOW) After months of intense, challenging, and excellent training, North Central Institute would like congratulate its graduates and Airframe and Powerplant Certificate recipients who were recognized during the September 2017 Graduation Ceremony.

Aviation maintenance is a dynamic career field, changing continuously since Charles Taylor, the first aircraft mechanic, helped design, build, and maintain the engine for the 1903 Wright Brothers’ Flyer.

Now and in the future, aircraft maintenance will continue to change. New designs and materials in aircraft construction and the interface between complex space-age systems, such as navigational aids, fly-by-wire, flight controls and electronic fuel controls, as well as the improvements in the time proven systems such as hydraulics and propellers continue to add to the mysticism of flight.

Nicholas Baehne: AASD & AMT 147 Powerplant Graduate
Kory Darling: Cum Laude & AMT 147 General & Powerplant Completer
Joshua Davis: Magna Cum Laude & AMT 147 General & Powerplant Completer
Mathew Harper: AASD & AMT 147 General & Airframe Completer
Aaron Harris: Cum Laude & AMT 147 General & Powerplant Completer
Garnell Johnson: AASD & AMT 147 Airframe Graduate
Frank Mitchell: AMT 147 General & Airframe Completer
Samantha Thacker: Cum Laude, AASD & AMT 147 Airframe Graduate

Due to FERPA Regulations, the following are not listed:
2 additional graduates in the AMT 147 Program
32 graduates in the AMT 65 Program
5 graduates in the AASD in Aviation Technology

NCI’s Aviation Maintenance program includes the Airframe and Powerplant Certificates. Students may choose to obtain both certificates as well as The Associate of Applied Science Degree in Aviation Technology. For more information about North Central Institute, visit www.nci.edu or call 931-431-9700.