Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Awarded A $33 Million Contract
CAE said Tuesday that it has sold two CAE 7000 Series
ARJ21-700 Level D full-flight simulators (FFS) to COMAC Shanghai
Aircraft Customer Service Co. Ltd., owned by Commercial Aircraft
Corporation of China Ltd. (COMAC). The contract, valued at
approximately C$35 million at list price, brings the total FFS
sales that CAE has announced so far during fiscal year 2010 to
12.
"We are building the ARJ21 to be the finest regional aircraft in
the world, so we want the aircraft's pilots to train using the best
simulators in the world - and those are CAE simulators," said Mr.
Xu Qinghong, President, Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service Co.,
Ltd. "The Chinese name for the ARJ21 - Xiangfeng - means 'Soaring
Phoenix,' and we expect the ARJ21 to soar ahead of other regional
jet aircraft, especially in hot and high-altitude conditions."
The ARJ21 full-flight simulators, as well as brief-debrief
stations, will be delivered to COMAC facilities in Shanghai. CAE is
currently producing the world's first ARJ21 FFS, which was
announced in 2006 and is expected to be ready for training in
mid-2010. These two additional ARJ21 FFSs will be delivered at the
end of 2010 and in 2012, respectively. The ARJ21 aircraft, the
first passenger jet to be fully developed independently and
indigenously produced in China, is scheduled to enter service in
2011.
The simulators will incorporate full six-degree-of-freedom CAE
True electric motion systems and new generation CAE Tropos-6000
visual systems, liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projectors, and
200- by 40-degree field-of-view visual displays.
"We are delighted that COMAC Shanghai Aircraft Customer Service
Co. Ltd. has placed further confidence in CAE, based on the
excellent progress to date on the prototype ARJ21 simulator," said
Jeff Roberts, CAE's Group President, Civil Simulation Products,
Training and Services. "These simulators will enable a strong
initial pilot training capability for COMAC's cadre of flight
instructors and the ARJ21 regional jet's early customer
airlines."
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