The Atlanta Technical College, in Atlanta, Georgia, is no longer certified to offer aviation maintenance technician training, the FAA said this week. The FAA issued an emergency order alleging that the college failed to keep proper records for students. Some grade records were incomplete or lacked instructor signatures, the FAA said, and several students who hadn’t made up absences were allowed to advance in the program. ATC surrendered its certificate. The college said in a written statement that it is “on track to become in full compliance with the FAA’s requirements and anticipates the restoration of its Air Agency certificate,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. “We look forward to future inspection of our program by the FAA,” the statement from ATC said. “We will accept students again in the aviation maintenance program once the certificate is reinstated.”
The FAA said ATC hasn’t enrolled any students or conducted any classes in the technician program since May 2014, and the FAA rescinded its curriculum approval in June 2014. However, ATC has continued to administer exit examinations and issued certificates of completion to its former students when it knew it was not authorized to do so, the FAA alleged. Additionally, ATC did not provide the FAA with requested copies of each certificate of completion and a detailed analysis of how students received certificates in the absence of an FAA-approved curriculum, the agency alleges.
