MEA356 Maintain light piston engine aircraft pressurisation systems

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for MEA356 ended on 29 August 2018 — 7 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 31 August 2019 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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
Unit of competency
Training package
MEA — Aeroskills Training Package
Currency period ends
29 August 2018
Latest release
Release 1 · 12 February 2015
Supersedes
MEA356A
Superseded by
MEA3000 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. MEA356Superseded — equivalentMaintain light piston engine aircraft pressurisation systems
  2. equivalent
  3. MEA3000CurrentMaintain small piston engine aircraft pressurisation systems

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.

  • MEA356AMEA356equivalent11 February 2015

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

  • MEA356MEA3000equivalent30 August 2018

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

Is MEA356 on your scope?

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Where MEA356 is used

training.gov.au lists MEA356 inside 4 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MEA356 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMEA356 is
MEASS00309LME039 Airframe - B1.2 Licence Exclusion E16 RemovalSkill setelective

Products no longer current 3 listed

The register still records MEA356 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 productTypeMEA356 is
MEA30215Certificate III in Aeroskills (Mechatronics)Qualificationelective
MEA41015Certificate IV in Aeroskills (Mechatronics)Qualificationelective
MEASS00425SAL009 Mechanical - B1.1 and B1.2 Pressurisation and pneumatic systems - Rating 10Skill 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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