---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 147.19"
title: "14"
number: "147.19"
heading: "Instructor requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/147.19"
---

# §147.19. Instructor requirements.


Each certificated aviation maintenance technician school must:

- (a) Provide qualified instructors to teach in a manner that ensures positive educational outcomes are achieved;
- (b) **Ensure instructors either—**
  - (1) Hold a mechanic certificate with one or more appropriate ratings; or
  - (2) If they do not hold a mechanic certificate, are otherwise specifically qualified to teach their assigned content; and
- (c) **Ensure the student-to-instructor ratio does not exceed 25—** 1 for any shop class.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(f), 40113, 44701-44702, 44707-44709; sec. 135, Pub. L. 116-120, 134 Stat. 1182.

### Source

Source: Docket FAA-2021-0237, Amdt. 147-9, 87 FR 31415, May 24, 2022, unless otherwise noted.