The General Dynamics Aviation Services center in West Palm Beach, Fla., recently received the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 2008 Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Diamond Certificate of Excellence award. It is the seventh consecutive year the facility has been honored with the distinction.
In addition, a record 44 General Dynamics Aviation Services-West Palm Beach employees earned the FAA’s Diamond Award for individuals. The facility had 42 Diamond Award winners in 2007.
The AMT program was established in 1992 to recognize FAA-certified aviation mechanics and their employers for participating in supplemental aviation maintenance training and other continuing-education courses.
The Diamond Certificate is the highest of the FAA’s five award levels. Each level is based on the hours of qualifying aircraft maintenance training each member of the aviation maintenance workforce receives during the year. Examples of approved training include FAA and industry training seminars and on-the-job technical training or college-level courses in mathematics, science or management.
Individual Diamond Award requirements include completion of a college-level three-credit course in an applicable field and one of the following: a 10-day aviation maintenance course, 58 hours of maintenance training, or 15 hours of teaching maintenance training.

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