Lane Community College Aviation Maintenance Program

Program Overview

This program fits Oregon students who want a two-year, full-time associate degree combining airframe and powerplant ratings, training out of a shared cargo hangar next to Eugene's airport.

Lane Community College's Aviation Maintenance Technician program is a two-year, full-time Associate of Applied Science covering both airframe and powerplant ratings. Training happens at Lane's Aviation Academy next to Eugene's Mahlon Sweet Airport, in a corporate hangar shared with commercial cargo planes near the runway. Graduates have gone on to the heavy-lift helicopter industry, regional airlines and general aviation.

Weigh this as a two-year community college program with a published full-program cost of $23,318. The next FAA-certificated Part 147 program is about 98.9 miles away, worth factoring in alongside the hangar's cargo-airline setting when comparing schedules and commute.

• Training located at Lane's Aviation Academy next to Eugene's Mahlon Sweet Airport
• 22,000 sq. ft. corporate hangar shared with commercial cargo planes at the end of runway 34L
• Graduates placed in heavy-lift helicopter industry, regional airlines, and general aviation

As stated on lanecc.edu

Lane Community College is at 28735 Old Airport Road, Eugene, OR 97402. Compare it with every aviation maintenance school in Oregon.

Annual median wage for aircraft mechanics and service technicians (SOC 49-3011), BLS OEWS May 2025. See the Oregon aircraft mechanic salary data.

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