Air Niugini welcomes home aircraft maintenance engineer (AME) cadets

May 3, 2017

Ten young Air Niugini engineers including two women have returned to Papua New Guinea two weeks ago with their Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) certificates after successfully completing their four year engineering cadet program at Air New Zealand Training institute, in Christchurch, New Zealand and Aviation Australia under the Cairns Aviation Skills Centre (CASC) respectively.

The cadet AMEs include Elena Mai, Lyndah Eremas, Kelvin Piongats, Gavin Eron, Ronald Kayoka,Raphael Vagi, Robstoan Gare Eremugo, Nathan Poy Ulastone, Damien Kadiko and Solomon Kawage who spent the first two years with Air New Zealand Aviation Institute where they did theoretical training, whilst the last two years at Cairns Aviation Skills Centre (CASC) for their practical training before returning home.

The program was fully funded by Air Niugini at the cost of over K5million. It aims at developing young Papua New Guineans to be fully Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAMEs) with