Aviation resume template

Catalyst opens on the latest job and prints no summary, so an operator sees fleet type, the checks you perform and the quality of your records straight away. The headline under the large left-aligned name carries the certificate, and labelled skill rows after the jobs give aircraft types a clear place.

Second choice: FAANGPath. FAANGPath prints a summary and skills rows before the jobs, better for pilots or technicians moving to a new aircraft type.

Catalyst template details and test results

Catalyst prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.

1. Work Experience. Without a summary, the headline names your trade and certificate. Bullets then carry fleet type and size, the checks you perform (line, heavy, component), the systems you specialise in and the quality of your records. In aviation, clean paperwork is as much a result as a repaired aircraft.
2. Skills. Aircraft types and maintenance tracking software go in Tools; systems expertise goes in Technical. Type experience is a filter: an operator flying the same airframe will search for it by name.
3. Education. An aviation maintenance technician school, an associate degree or military technical training on one line. If your school was a certificated aviation maintenance technician school, say so, since that is one route to the mechanic certificate.
4. Certifications. Write the certificate and ratings as the FAA issues them. Under 14 CFR 65.77, applicants qualify through a certificated maintenance school or with at least 18 months of practical experience for one rating, or 30 months working on both at once. Catalyst prints this last, so the sample repeats A&P in the headline.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• aircraft maintenance
• A&P
• airframe and powerplant
• line maintenance
• heavy checks
• troubleshooting
• maintenance manuals
• maintenance records
• FAA regulations
• inspection
• hydraulics
• landing gear
• borescope
• safety management
• aircraft types

• Opening with an objective statement. Catalyst prints no summary, so the certificate and types belong in the headline.
• "Certified aircraft mechanic" without the ratings and the issuing authority.
• Military acronyms and form numbers that civilian employers will not recognise.
• Leaving out record keeping and audits, which aviation employers weigh as heavily as repairs.

We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.

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We opened every page below on that date. Pay, rules and requirements change, so check the source before you rely on a detail.

1. Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 14 CFR 65.77 Experience requirements (mechanic certificate applicants present a document from a certificated maintenance technician school, or 18 months of practical experience for one rating, or 30 months for airframe and powerplant concurrently)