Description
Repair, calibrate, and maintain aircraft-mounted cameras and photographic systems, ensuring reliable operation, alignment, and integration with aircraft electrical and control systems.
- • Calibrate and verify exposure meters, shutters, diaphragms, lens carriers, and gimbals using timing and alignment instruments.
- • Disassemble aircraft camera pods, housings, and mounts to access defects using hand and precision tools.
- • Adjust cameras and mechanisms—range/view finders, shutters, meters, and lens systems—to meet aircraft specifications.
- • Clean and lubricate aircraft cameras and polish optical surfaces using approved cleaning materials and work aids.
- • Measure parts and settings, such as shutter speed, back focus, and light meter accuracy, with precision instruments.
- • Test lens focus, diaphragm alignment, lens mounts, recording transport, and stabilization under bench and simulated flight conditions.
- • Diagnose malfunctions by examining equipment, imagery outputs, built-in-test results, and maintenance reports against specifications.
- • Requisition and track parts, consumables, and repair materials.
- • Read and interpret aircraft drawings, wiring diagrams, technical orders, and specifications to plan repairs and operation sequences.
- • Fabricate or modify electronic, electrical, or mechanical components per specifications using lathes, mills, grinders, or precision hand tools.
- • Assemble aircraft cameras, gimbals, housings, and mounts using diagrams, blueprints, bench machines, hand tools, and power tools.
- • Record test data, calibrations, and repair actions in maintenance logs and reports to meet aviation documentation standards.
- • Lay out reference points and dimensions on parts or stock for machining using precision measuring instruments.
- • Recommend design changes or upgrades to airborne imaging, microfilming, or film-developing equipment.
- • Install electrical assemblies, wiring, and connectors in aircraft camera housings; integrate memory cards or film using hand tools and soldering equipment.
- • Perform boresight and alignment of cameras to aircraft reference axes and mission sensors.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
