Aircraft Maintenance Engineering is a license course provided by institutes fully approved under CAR-147 (Basic) requirements along with approved curriculum by DGCA, Govt. of India for AME CAR-66 license category B1 which covers heavy, light & rotary aircraft and turbine, and piston engine to be known as Mechanical Stream and category B2 which covers aircraft electrical, instrumentation and aircraft communication and navigation system to be known as Avionics stream.

​An AME is to certify an Aircraft for Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul as carried out. Only qualified personnel under CAR-66 license are permitted to perform such work.