Engineers of Operational Support
DIVISION & Aviation System Standards Directorate
(AOS & AVN)
SIZE OF THE BARGAINING UNIT: 124.
LOCATION: Oklahoma City for AVN (Aviation System Standards), AOS (Operational
Support)-200 and 510; Atlantic City for AOS-260/270.
THEY ARE:
AOS Engineering develops modifications and maintenance procedures for
NAS equipment, provides national level field support, and maintains the configuration management of
NAS Surveillance, Navigation and Communication systems . AVN engineering
provides modification and maintenance instructions for the fleet of
flight inspection aircraft. This
includes creation of designs, including drawings, reports, and
Supplemental Type Certificates.
STATUS: NATCA won elections for the groups
AVN, AOS-200 and AOS-510. FLRA certification was issued for AOS-200 on May 22,
2000 amended to include AOS-260/270 on Sept. 28, 2000, for AOS-510 and AVN on July 14, 2000.
These units were combined with the Engineers and Architects Unit on
April 30, 2002 (WA-RP-01-0106) .
INTEREST TO NATCA: They provide invaluable equipment restoration services for
ATC, assisting in restoring systems when there is an outage. They perform site testing, evaluating new systems prior to becoming operational. They are often aware of potential equipment problems or outages before they are exposed by others.
AVN engineering
provides essential support for NAVAIDs flight inspections.
