The first thing I'll ask is why do you want to get into aircraft engineering, and secondly are you willing to move away from the Ipswich area.
As far as I know, there is almost nothing in aircraft engineering in your area, with Wattisham being open almost exclusively to ex-forces technicians only. After that you have Marshall of Cambridge, then Stansted airport.
In the past, Marshall have run adult retraining courses, so maybe contact them and see what they suggest. Stansted, again as far as I know, doesn't have any companies currently running training schemes.
Next up is KLM at Norwich. They certainly are growing at the moment, but I think they're only taking on apprentices and experienced techs.
It's not an easy industry to get into with a hands-on-tools background, so I really can only advise that you try knocking on doors and calling companies.
Toan
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