UAE Business: UAE’s Airways Aviation, CAE to deliver flight training – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: UAE’s Airways Aviation, CAE to deliver flight training – Gulf Digital News

UAE-based Airways Aviation Group will partner with CAE, the leading provider of training solutions to the military forces, to deliver flight training to the German Air Force.

Training will be conducted between Airways Aviation’s Montpellier facilities in France and a brand-new CAE Bremen airport facility in Germany, and will include academic, simulator and live-flying training to more than 20 student aviators annually, utilising a modern fleet of single Diamond DA-40 and twin DA-42 engine aircraft. 

The first cohort is expected to commence training in April this year and preparations are underway in anticipation of their arrival. 

The Airways Aviation Group has trained in excess of 8,000 commercial pilots, graduated over 25,000 cabin, ground handling and maintenance professionals, and maintains over 50 aircraft in its global fleet, including Europe’s largest fleet of Diamond DA40 and Diamond DA42 aircraft, and multiple Cessna 172, Cessna 182 and Piper Seminole aircraft, with a diverse range of avionics systems, including Garmin 1000, glass cockpits and retractable undercarriage.

CAE has been awarded the contract by the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support. The contract will be delivered over the next seven years, with the option to extend for an additional