MEA20618 Certificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MEA20618 ended on 20 November 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 22 November 2023 — 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.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
MEA — Aeroskills Training Package
Currency period ends
20 November 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 31 August 2018
Supersedes
MEA20615
Superseded by
MEA20622 equivalent

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.

  1. MEA20618Superseded — equivalentCertificate II in Aircraft Surface Finishing
  2. equivalent
  3. 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.

  • MEA20615MEA20618equivalent30 August 2018

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • MEA20618MEA20622equivalent21 November 2022

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is MEA20618 on your scope?

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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 MEA20618 is made of

training.gov.au lists 14 units for MEA20618: 11 core and 3 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 11 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MEA107Interpret and use aviation maintenance industry manuals and specificationscurrent
MEA117Apply self in the aviation maintenance environmentcurrent
MEA154Apply work health and safety practices in aviation maintenancecurrent
MEA155Plan and organise aviation maintenance work activitiescurrent
MEA156Apply quality standards during aviation maintenance activitiescurrent
MEA157Complete aviation maintenance industry documentationcurrent
MEA158Perform basic hand skills, standard trade practices and fundamentals in aviation maintenancecurrent
MEA411Remove surface coatings from aircraft or aircraft componentsnot current
MEA412Pre-treat aluminium alloy surfacesnot current
MEA413Seal aircraft and aircraft component structural seamsnot current
MSMENV272Participate in environmentally sustainable work practicescurrent

Elective units 3 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
MEA330Maintain aircraft non-primary structural removable components or parts and internal fittingsnot current
MEA406Repair/modify aircraft non-primary structural sheet metal componentsnot current
MEA407Repair/modify aircraft non-primary structural non-metallic componentsnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "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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