CAE has opened CAE Vienna, its first business aviation training center in Central Europe and welcomed its first customer in April. A Gulfstream G550 full-flight simulator (FFS) is already in operation, and a new Pilatus PC-24 FFS will be deployed at the 8,000 square foot training facility in the second half of 2026.
CAE Vienna will feature up to nine full-flight simulators (FFS), including Europe’s first Bombardier Global 7500 FFS scheduled to enter service in June, a Global Vision and Embraer Phenom 100/300 FFS this summer, and a Bombardier Challenger 3500 in October 2025.
CAE Vienna complements the pilot and aircraft maintenance technician training delivered at CAE Burgess Hill in the United Kingdom.
“We were very excited to welcome Alexander Vagacs, Chairman of Avcon Jet, as our first customer at CAE Vienna. Alexander has trained with us for 25 years, and since founding Avcon Jet in 2007, we are proud to say that he has also entrusted the training of his pilots to CAE,” commented Alexandre Prévost, CAE’s Division President, Business Aviation.
“Having simulators in Vienna is a fantastic step because, as a company based in Vienna, this gives easy access for our pilots and our crews to training here in Central Europe,” commented Alexander Vagacs, Chairman of Avcon Jet, one of Europe’s major business aviation companies operating 100 aircraft worldwide. “It makes training much, much easier.”
Like all CAE training centers worldwide, CAE Vienna will offer all phases of classroom and simulator training for established pilots to earn their type-rating and complete recurrent training for differing authorities. The company will officially inaugurate the new training center this fall.
