When must new enrolments into MEA20610 stop?

New enrolments are not permitted from 23 January 2013 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in MEA20610?

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

MEA20610 Certificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

MEA20610Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing
equivalent
MEA20611Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing
equivalent
MEA20615Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing
equivalent
MEA20618Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing
equivalent
MEA20622CurrentCertificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

MEA20607MEA20610not equivalent16 November 2010
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
MEA20610MEA20611equivalent22 January 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is MEA20610 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MEA20610 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What MEA20610 is made of

training.gov.au lists 14 units for MEA20610. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 14 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
MEA101B	Interpret occupational health and safety practices in aviation maintenance	`N/A`	not current
MEA103B	Plan and organise aviation maintenance work activities	`N/A`	not current
MEA105B	Apply quality standards applicable to aviation maintenance processes	`N/A`	not current
MEA107B	Interpret and use aviation maintenance industry manuals and specifications	`N/A`	not current
MEA108B	Complete aviation maintenance industry documentation	`N/A`	not current
MEA109B	Perform basic hand skills, standard trade practices and fundamentals in aviation maintenance	`N/A`	not current
MEA117A	Apply self in the aviation maintenance environment	`N/A`	not current
MEA330B	Dismantle, inspect, maintain and assemble aircraft non-primary structural removable components or parts and internal fittings	`N/A`	not current
MEA406B	Repair/modify aircraft non-primary structural sheetmetal components	`N/A`	not current
MEA407B	Repair/modify aircraft non-primary structural non-metallic components	`N/A`	not current
MEA411A	Remove surface coatings from aircraft or aircraft components	`N/A`	not current
MEA412A	Pre-treat aluminium alloy surfaces	`N/A`	not current
MEA413A	Seal aircraft and aircraft component structural seams	`N/A`	not current
MSAENV272B	Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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