MEA30115 Certificate III in Aircraft Surface Finishing

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MEA30115 ended on 29 August 2018 — 8 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — 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
29 August 2018
Latest release
Release 1 · 12 February 2015
Supersedes
MEA30111
Superseded by
MEA30118 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. MEA30115Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Aircraft Surface Finishing
  2. equivalent
  3. MEA30118CurrentCertificate III 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.

  • MEA30111MEA30115equivalent11 February 2015

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

  • MEA30115MEA30118equivalent30 August 2018

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for MEA30115 and for its training package MEA (release 6.0), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is MEA30115 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether MEA30115 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.

What MEA30115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 17 units for MEA30115: 17 core and 0 elective. 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.

Core units 17 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
AURVTP2003Prepare spray painting materials and equipmentnot current
AURVTP3012Apply air dry and polyurethane enamel refinishing materialsnot current
MEA101Interpret work health and safety practices in aviation maintenancenot current
MEA103Plan and organise aviation maintenance work activitiesnot current
MEA105Apply quality standards applicable to aviation maintenancenot current
MEA107Interpret and use aviation maintenance industry manuals and specificationscurrent
MEA108Complete aviation maintenance industry documentationnot current
MEA109Perform basic hand skills, standard trade practices and fundamentals in aviation maintenancenot current
MEA118Conduct self in the aviation maintenance environmentcurrent
MEA411Remove surface coatings from aircraft or aircraft componentsnot current
MEA412Pre-treat aluminium alloy surfacesnot current
MEA413Seal aircraft and aircraft component structural seamsnot current
MEA414Remove light corrosion from aircraftnot current
MEA415Paint aircraft surfacesnot current
MEA416Apply aircraft identification markings, graphics and decalsnot current
MEA417Apply specialty coatings to aircraftnot current
MSAENV272BParticipate in environmentally sustainable work practicesnot 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 14 October 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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