CAE opens Vienna training centre, welcomes first customer last month

CAE has opened CAE Vienna, its first business aviation training centre in Central Europe, welcoming its first customer in April. 

The 8,000sqft training facility is already home to a Gulfstream G550 full-flight simulator and CAE said it plan to add a Pilatus PC-24 simulator in the second half of 2026. 

CAE Vienna will eventually feature up to nine full-flight simulators, including Europe’s first Bombardier Global 7500 simulator scheduled to enter service in June, a Global Vision and Embraer Phenom 100/300 simulator this summer, and a Bombardier Challenger 3500 in October 2025. 

Alexandre Prévost, CAE’s division president, Business Aviation, said: “We are very pleased that our first business aviation training centre in Central Europe is now open and offers customers an elevated training experience in a state-of-the-art facility. We look forward to expanding our capabilities at CAE Vienna with the addition of the Pilatus PC-24 full-flight simulator in 2026.

“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,” added Prévost. 

Vagacs said: “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. It makes training much, much easier.”

Like all CAE training centres 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. 

CAE said it will officially inaugurate the new training centre this fall.