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2025 Ohio Aviation Maintenance Symposium
    Eastland Career Center - Monday, March 24th 2025       

2025 OAMS Training Schecule

COPAMA Close of Operations in 2025

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Information from this years Ohio Aviation Maintenance Symposium Event!

The 2025 Ohio Aviation Maintenance Symposium was another big success. Here are the photos and other information about the event!


Over 200 were pre-registered through the FAASTeam website with and estimated 275 in total attendance. Attendees were from all three Ohio FSDOs, Cincinnati GL05, Columbus GL07 and Cleveland GL25.

We want to thank all the vendors, presentors and the Eastland Career Center, the E.C.C. Student
 and COPAMA volunteers who helped with the symposium.

 

Special thanks to all who attended and hope to see your next year!

 

Eastland Career Center Volunters, FAA Photos, Vendor Listing , Vendor Photos , Food Trucks      

 

FAA Opening and COPAMA Scholarship Fund Presentation

The Symposium opening was headed by FAA FAASTeam Inpector Paul Gillenwater from the Columbus FSDO. Cincinnati and Cleveland FSDO representatives were also present for registration and presentations.

Opening Session

Opening Session conducted by Inspector Paul Gillenwater

Inspector Paul Gillenwater

Motors and Rotos check presentation.

Michael Absten presents $244.00 check from 2024 Motors and Rotors Event to Steve Brown for
COPAMA Scholarship Fund.

Motors and Rotors Event

Steve Brown presents check to MMS Aviation.

Bob Schwartz from MMS accepts Scholarship check from Steve Brown for 5 Apprentices.

COPAMA Boardmember Steve Brown presented the check for 2625.00 to MMS Director of Training, Bob Schwartz for MMS Aviation's Apprentices, Matthew Woods, Dale Liff, Tyler Sensenig, Sharee Sensenig and Ben Winsley. The scholarship funds will pay for 3 computer written tests each now costing $175 for the completion of their 30 month training and AIrframe and PowerPlant Certificates.

We wish them well as they go to support missionary aircraft throughout the world.

FAA Photos

Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus FSDO Inspectors

FAA Registration Tables

FAA Registration Tables

2025 Columbus FSDO Inspectors GL07

Inspectors Paul Gillenwater, Todd Caruso, Bill Cummins, Alex D'Ettorre, Jon Jefferies, Joe Korecz, Krystal Nabors, Aaron Patterson, Lionell Portis Nathan Poare, FSDO Manager Kevin Tyree, Mike Watkins , John Welsh  and Brittany Witzberger.

 

2025 Cincinnati FSDO Inspectors GL05

Inspetors Joe Culbertson, Stan Faske, Jason Forshey, and Robert Wagers

 

Aviation Safety Inspector Mike Millard  GAO AFS-830

 

2024 Cleveland FSDO Inspectors GL25

 Inspectors Ron Schwachenwald, Tomast Bokotey, Steven Truesdale and Arnold (Arnie) Wolfe


 

2024 Eastland Career Center Volunteers

ECC Volunteers 

2024 Eastland Career Center Volunteers

Eastland Career Center Aviation Instructor Matt McGregor  posees with the student volunteers who returned on spring break to help set up and tear down for the symposium.  They aslo attended the symposium to help with logistics.  We want to thank them for thier help and the Center for the use of their beautiful new Technologies Center for the Symposium.

Central Ohio Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (COPAMA)

Gene Sprang

 COPAMA Booth

COPAMA President Charles Jenkins, his son Sagan man the COPAMA raffle table. Other COPAMA members in attendance were Gene Sprang, Steve Brown and Lowell Dowler.

Thanks to all the vendors who provided prises and certificates for the raffel which brought in $587.00 to add to bring total proceeds of the symposium to $4093.53. Checks for $2046.76 will go to the E.C.C. Antonio Vincent Rosa Memorial and COPAMA Scholarship Funds.

 

Antonio's Aviation Legacy Memorial for Antonio Rosa

 Antonio Vincent Roas

Antonio was a 17 year old aviation student at E.C.C. from Pickerington who was walking to work on Thursday August 12th, 2021 and tragically hit by a truck while crossing Refugee Rd. A Go-Fund-Me page created at the time of his death raised over $20,000.  Please click on the link above to visit the memorial website!

 

Engineering Technologies Center

Eastland Career Center
4465 S. Hamilton Road,
Groveport, Ohio 43125

Engineering Technologies Center. Eastland Career Center

 Engineering Technologies Center. Eastland Career Center

 

Many Thanks to all the vendors that attended and helped to make it happen!

2025 Vendor List

  Break Sponsors  

Morning Sponsors - The AD Toolbox - T-Data - TBX 

Afternoon Sponsor - Standard Aero

Vendor Contact Name
Aero Battery Gary McCauley
Aerospace Turbine Rotables Gary Ogden
Airforms, LLC Sales Team
Airwolf Aerospace LLC Eric Wolff
Concorde Battery Corp Chris Holder
Eagle Fuel Cells Kurt Hartwig
Hartzell Engine Technologies Tim Gauntt
Hartzell Propellers LLC Opie Perry
Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics Kirk Botefur
Prefered Airparts LLC Dale Miller
Saint Gobain Mobility Aerospace Mark Chinn
Spirit Aeronautics Rick Ochs
Standard Aero Chris Moffett
Tempest Aero Group Vince Bechtel
TBX - AD Toolbox and T-Data Jon McLaughlin
Tool Testing Lab Matt Black
Tritex Corporation Russell Mosley
Tronair Inc. David Janis
Uavionix Brit Wanick
Weldon Pump John DeMatteis
West Star Aviation Dave Godo
Zip-Chem Products Sam Pollock

 

Vendor gallery and booth photos

Displays view 1

Displays view 2

OAMS 2025 Vendors

 

Aero Battery

Aero Battery Inc.

 

Aerospace Turbin Rotables, Inc

 

Airforms LLC

Airforms LLC

 

Airwolf Aerospace LLC

Airwolf Aerospace LLC

 

Concorde Battery

Concord Battery

 

Eagle Fuel Cells

Eagle Fuel Cells

 

Hartzell Engine Tech and Props

Hartzell Engine Technologies - Hartzell Props

 

Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics

Mid-Continent Instruments and Avionics

 

Preferred Airparts LLC

Preferred Airparts LLC

 

Saint-Gobain

Saint-Gobain Mobility Aerospace

 

Spirit Aeronautical

Spirit Aeronautics

 

Standard Aero

 

Tempest Aero Group

Tempest Aero Group

 

Tool Testing Labs

Tool Testing Lab

 

Tritex Corporation

Tritex Corporation

 

Tronair Inc

Tronair Inc

 

 uAvionix

uAvionix

 

Weldon Pump

Weldon Pump

 

West Star Aviation

West Star Aviation

 

Zip Chem Products

Zip Chem Products

 


Many thanks to the Food Trucks which provided lunch!

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Pitabilities Food Truck
Pitabilities Food Truck

Schmidt's Food Truck
Schmidt's Food Truck

Tortilla Street Food Truck
Tortilla Street Food Truck

 

OAMS 2025 Preplanning!  The COPAMA close of operations in 2025!

In December 2024, FAA Safety Inspector Paul Gillenwater led a discussion with COPAMA board members, other FAASTeam Inspectors from Cleveland and Cincinnati FSDOs, Eastland Career Center Instructor Matt McGregor and Instructors Deem and Everett from C.S.C.C. Aviation Maintenance Technology to discuss the 2025 Ohio Aviation Maintenance Symposium. The Symposium date selected was March 24th at the Eastland Career Center which is located at 4465 S. Hamilton Road, Groveport, Ohio 43125.

E.C.C.'s Aviation Pathways Program exposes their students to Piloting, Maintenance, A.T.C., Airport Management and Drone training to pass the Part 107 UAS Certification. They get a well rounded idea of aviation so they can decide which career path to choose after High School graduation.

The Symposium will be held in their Engineering Technologies Center which has hosted the Symposium for the last 2 year. Along with the Aviation program which provides training for up to 30 Junior and Senior students from affiliated regional High Schools, the building houses Welding, Pre-Engineering, Computer Controlled Manufacturing, and other technical courses for High School and Adult continuing education classes in the evening.

The Center will be on Spring Break so acres of parking are available along with local restaurants and 3 food trucks for lunch. Attendees had thier choice of food source or to bring their lunch.

COPAMA Close of Operations in 2025

After much deliberation, the COPAMA Board came to unnaimous vote concerning the continuation of COPAMA as a Non-Profit organization. Since we have ongoing commitment to a few student awardees till next June 31st, the Board will meet again at that time to finalize the close of operations. The 2 members, Lowell Dowler and Gene Sprang, who were not seeking reelction will remain on the board through closing.

This 2025 Ohio Aviation Maintenace Symposium is our final event of many over the 23 years of operation. Throught that time, we've held training meetings at Lane Aviation, The Central Ohio Aviation Golf Outing, The Holiday Dinners and participated in the District 7 Science Day. All those happenings are available to view in the pages of this website.

Next year's Symposium will not include us and our website and email services will terminate at the end of this year. The FAA will distribute information about timing and location of next year's Symposium so look for their email notices or visit the FAASTeam Safety page for Event notices and other training opportunities.

While this website is still active, if you find a page or information you'd like to save, you may do so using the Save Page option of your favorite browser.

  1. First, set up a folder as a location to save the page and all the information contained there.

  2. Load the page you'd like to save into the browser.

  3. Using Chrome as an example, Click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the browser next to your profile.

  4.  In the pull down menu, Select "Cast, Save and Share"

  5. Click on "Save page as" Conrol S

  6. Go to the folder you set up in set 1. Save as type "Webpage, Complete" and click Save button.
    It will take some time to load the contents so look for the progress bar to complete

  7. When you click on the page hyperlink, the page will appear with contents only and the backgrounds and schemes will not be rendered.

  8. Let us know if you have any problems by emailing web@copama.org

 

Eastland Career Center Aviation Pathways Program information.

 

Engineering Technologies Center

 

 

This page was last updated on 03/31/25.