Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic (FRCMA) is an American naval aviation maintenance and repair facility headquartered on board NAS Oceana. It is one of 6 main subsidiaries of the Fleet Readiness Centers. FRCMA currently has nearly 2,500 sailors, marines and civilian workers.

Services

Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic performs scheduled maintenance inspection and repair, unscheduled emergency in-service repair, structural and electronic system modifications on numerous carrier based aircraft.[1]

The FRCMA Staff is located in Hangar 200. FRCMA also consists of five different sites: FRCMA Det Oceana, FRCMA Det Norfolk, FRCMA Det Patuxent River, Voyage Repair Team (VRT) Norfolk and Mayport, and FRCMA Aircraft Department (Oceana and Norfolk). These sites support the F/A-18, E-2, C-2, H-60, CH-46, AH-1, UH-1, EA-6B and H-53 aircraft/helicopters, ground support equipment, associated F-414, T-56, T-700, T-400, T-64 engine models, and ALRE.[1]

Innovation

A FRCMA sailor won Athena Project DC, a yearly competition to test the most innovative, time saving and cost saving projects to help the Navy's goals.[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Fleet Readiness Center Mid-Atlantic". US Navy. Archived from the original on March 31, 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2018. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "FRCMA Sailor's innovative idea wins Athena Project DC 2.0, Adm. Sims Award for Intellectual Courage". 8 May 2017.

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