Story ID: 359
CAE Opens Vienna Training Center
By: Curt Epstein
Caption: The facility will be officially inaugurated later this year
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Global flight training provider CAE has opened its Vienna facility, marking the company's first business aviation training center in Central Europe. The facility—which opened last month and complements the UK CAE location at Burgess Hill—received its first customer.
“We are very excited to welcome Alexander Vagacs, chairman of Avcon Jet, as our first customer at CAE Vienna,” said Alexandre Prévost, CAE’s division president for business aviation. “Alexander has trained with us for 25 years, and since founding Avcon in 2007, we are proud to say he has entrusted the training of his pilots to CAE.”
The 8,000-sq-ft Vienna facility—like all CAE training centers—offers classroom and simulator instruction for established pilots to earn their type ratings and complete their recurrent training to satisfy their respective authorities.
It has a Gulfstream G550 full flight simulator in operation. Plans call for the location to offer up to nine simulators, including Europe’s first Bombardier Global 7500, which will enter service next month, followed by full flight simulators for the Vision cockpit on legacy Globals and Embraer Phenoms in the third quarter, and a Bombardier Challenger in October. They will be joined by a Pilatus PC-24 simulator in the second half of 2026.
“We are very pleased that our first business aviation training center in Central Europe is now open and offers customers an elevated training experience in a state-of-the-art facility,” Prévost said. “This will be a very exciting year as new full flight simulators enter service and we begin to welcome more customers to CAE Vienna.”