FAA Part 145 Training Software
Training software for Part 145 repair stations
14 CFR 145.163 requires a training program that ensures each employee is capable of performing their assigned maintenance functions, and records that prove it. AmpUp Insights delivers the training, verifies the capability, and keeps the evidence in one record.
Direct answer
FAA Part 145 training software helps certificated repair stations run the employee training program required by 14 CFR 145.163: initial and recurrent training that ensures each employee assigned to perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, or alterations is capable of performing the assigned task, plus documentation of that training. AmpUp Insights builds courses from your own task cards and procedures, verifies capability with rubric-scored assessment, and produces records an inspector can trace.
What does 14 CFR 145.163 require of a repair station training program?
Section 145.163 requires a certificated repair station to have and use an FAA-approved employee training program consisting of initial and recurrent training, and the program must ensure each employee assigned to perform maintenance, preventive maintenance, alterations, or inspection functions is capable of performing the assigned task. The regulation also requires the repair station to document individual employee training in a format acceptable to the FAA and to retain those records for a minimum of 2 years.
The operative word is capable. The rule is not written around attendance, it is written around whether the employee can perform the assigned task. For the full section text, record-keeping specifics, and what changed in the FAA's recent amendments, see our reference guide on AS9100 and FAA Part 145 training requirements.
Why do training records become an inspection problem?
Most repair stations can produce a list of courses each technician completed. Fewer can show, for a specific employee and a specific task, the evidence that the training program actually produced capability, or that recurrent training is keeping it current.
When records live in spreadsheets, binders, and an LMS that only tracks completions, answering an inspector's question means reconstruction. Competency verification changes the record itself: each completion carries the assessment evidence behind it, so qualification status traces to what the technician demonstrated.
How does AmpUp Insights support a Part 145 training program?
AmpUp Insights is built for maintenance organizations where training has to produce demonstrable capability, not just completions.
Courses from your task cards
Build training from maintenance manuals, task cards, SOPs, and inspection criteria, so initial and recurrent training matches the work your technicians are assigned.
Capability, verified
Rubric-scored assessment and scenario practice built from your procedures show whether a technician can perform the task, not just whether they finished the course.
Training records with evidence attached
Each completion is recorded with the assessment evidence behind it, so an individual employee's training documentation is a pull, not a reconstruction.
Recurrent training on a cadence
Spaced retrieval and continuous re-verification track knowledge decay between recurrent cycles and flag gaps before they reopen.
Keeps your existing systems
Connects to the LMS you already run over SCORM 1.2, LTI 1.3, and xAPI, and to HRIS for employee data and role mapping.
Ramp new technicians with evidence
Structured onboarding gets new hires to qualified faster, with verified evidence at each step of the ramp.
Learn more on the platform, LMS, and course builder pages.
Frequently asked questions
Software that helps a certificated repair station run the employee training program required by 14 CFR 145.163: delivering initial and recurrent training, ensuring each employee is capable of performing assigned maintenance tasks, and documenting the training completed.
Yes. Section 145.163(c) requires repair stations to document individual employee training in a format acceptable to the FAA and to retain those records for a minimum of 2 years. AmpUp Insights records each completion with the assessment evidence behind it.
Yes. 14 CFR 145.163(a) requires an employee training program approved by the FAA, and revisions are submitted to the responsible Flight Standards office under 145.209(e). The 2022 rule that ended FAA curriculum approval applied to Part 147 mechanic schools, not Part 145 repair stations.
Yes. Assignments cover initial and recurrent training, and spaced retrieval with continuous re-verification tracks whether capability is holding between recurrent cycles.
No. Your LMS can keep delivering training and holding completion records while AmpUp connects over SCORM 1.2, LTI 1.3, and xAPI and verifies the outcome. You can also deliver training directly in AmpUp.