MEA261 Use electronic test equipment

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MEA261 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
MEA — Aeroskills Training Package
Currency period ends
20 November 2022
Latest release
Release 2 · 31 August 2018 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
MEA261C
Superseded by
MEAAVI0038 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. MEA261Superseded — equivalentUse electronic test equipment
  2. equivalent
  3. MEAAVI0038CurrentUse electronic test equipment

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.

  • MEA261CMEA261equivalent11 February 2015

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

  • MEA261MEAAVI0038equivalent21 November 2022

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

Is MEA261 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MEA261 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.

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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.

Where MEA261 is used

training.gov.au lists MEA261 inside 18 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MEA261 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMEA261 is
MEA40618Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Avionics)Qualificationcore

Products no longer current 17 listed

The register still records MEA261 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeMEA261 is
MEA40615Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Avionics)Qualificationcore
MEA41215Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Armament)Qualificationcore
MEA41218Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Armament)Qualificationcore
MEA50515Diploma of Aeroskills (Non-Destructive Testing)Qualificationcore
MEA50518Diploma of Aeroskills (Non-Destructive Testing)Qualificationcore
MEA50715Diploma of Avionic EngineeringQualificationcore
MEA50718Diploma of Avionic EngineeringQualificationcore
MEA60315Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
MEA60318Advanced Diploma of Aviation Non-Destructive TestingQualificationcore
MEA60515Advanced Diploma of Avionic EngineeringQualificationcore
Show the remaining 7 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeMEA261 is
MEA60518Advanced Diploma of Avionic EngineeringQualificationcore
MEASS00245AMW001 Electrical component repair/overhaulSkill setelective
MEASS00246AMW002 Mechanical and electro-mechanical instrument component repair/overhaulSkill setelective
MEASS00247AMW003 Aircraft display, control and distribution system component repair/overhaulSkill setelective
MEASS00249AMW005 Aircraft radio frequency communication and navigation system component repair/overhaulSkill setelective
MEASS00250AMW006 Aircraft pulse system component repair/overhaulSkill setelective
MEASS00251AMW007 Aircraft audio and visual system and reproducer repair/overhaulSkill setelective

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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