GNTC has four locations in Rome, Calhoun, Rockmart and Rock Spring, Georgia, and enrolls around 8,200 students every year. To train as a helicopter mechanic, you must enroll in the aviation maintenance technology program at the Aviation Training Center in Rome. The program requires students to be at least 16 years of age and complete 11 quarters of study. In addition to specialties in specific areas of aircraft maintenance, the program also includes basic math, physics and psychology courses.
The Aviation Institute of Maintenance has nine locations in seven different states nationwide, as well as an online program that teaches the human aspects of the aviation industry. All of the school's locations offer either an aviation maintenance technician program or an aviation maintenance technical engineer program. The AMT program prepares students for the service aspect of the aeronautics industry, as well as the entry-level FAA examination for qualification in the maintenance field.
Embry-Riddle has two locations in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona; the school also offers online classes and classroom courses in various countries worldwide, including Germany, Singapore, Iraq and Turkey. Helicopter maintenance is covered in the bachelor's degree program in aviation maintenance. Both of Embry-Riddle's U.S. campuses offer supplementary programs in helicopter flight and systems that complement this course of study.
The Westwood College of Aviation Technology has locations in Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago, but its Denver campus offers a program in advanced electronics technology that is unavailable at its other locations. Helicopter maintenance can be learned in both this program and Westwood's Airframe and Power Plant program, which teaches aviation maintenance, aircraft fuel and control systems and power plant systems. In addition to aircraft maintenance, this program can qualify its students for work in power plants and other electrical and electronics-based industries.