CAE inaugurates executive aviation center in Vienna 

Simulator and training company CAE officially inaugurated a new training center for executive aviation in Vienna, Austria. 

CAE Vienna is the first center of this sort to be opened by the Canadian company in Central Europe and, while its official inauguration took place on September 4, 2025, it has been operational since April. 

The 86,000 square foot (8,000 square meter) training center is capable of training pilots on four different types of advanced executive jet: Gulfstream G550, Bombardier Global 7500, Bombardier Global 6000 and Embraer Phenom 100/300 full-flight simulator (FFS), the latter as part of the Embraer CAE Training Services (ECTS) joint venture.  

Future executive aviation pilots will be able to complete all phases of classroom and simulator training required by different aviation authorities to obtain type-rating and complete recurrent training. The center will also offer training for maintenance technicians, where they will be able to gain type training, engine run and taxi courses, technical training (including on avionics), and a variety of other personal development courses. 

In addition to the flight simulators, CAE has fitted the Vienna training center with a number of technological novelties which aim to make processes more personalized and efficient, streamlining the booking and record keeping process. 

CAE is investing in expanding its training capacity, since its own publicly available research indicates that the aviation industry will need thousands of new pilots and technicians over the next decade.  

“According to CAE’s Aviation Talent Forecast, the business aviation industry in Europe will need 7,000 new pilots and 9,000 new maintenance technicians over the next 10 years,” said Alexandre Prévost, CAE’s Division President, Business Aviation in a press release announcing the opening. “With the ability to train thousands of aviation professionals annually, CAE Vienna is ideally equipped and perfectly located to help meet that demand.”  

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