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CAE Wins $32.3 Million on Contracts

By Tish Drake | December 12, 2008
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CAE, Montreal, has been awarded contracts worth $32.3 million to design and manufacture full-flight simulators (FFS) and associated training devices for Saudi Arabian Airlines and the Hua Ou Aviation Training Centre in Beijing. Saudi Arabian Airlines ordered two CAE 7000 Series Airbus A320 FFSs, a CAE Simfinity Airbus A320 Level 5 flight training device (FTD), and suite of CAE Simfinity Airbus Pilot Transition (APT) trainers and Airbus Competence Training (ACT) classrooms for the A320, A330 and A340. The training solutions will be delivered in 2009 to the Prince Sultan Aviation Training Academy in Jeddah. The Hua Ou Aviation Training Centre, a joint venture of Airbus and the China Aviation Supplies Holding Company, ordered a CAE 7000 Series Airbus A330/340 convertible FFS. The simulator will be convertible to five types of A330 and A340, including the A330-200 with three different engine types, the A340-300 and the A340-600. The simulator will be delivered in 2009 to the Hua Ou Aviation Training Centre in Beijing.

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