Fri, Nov 18, 2011
Civil Aviation Flight University Will Add To Its 200-Aircraft
Fleet
Cirrus Aircraft announced this week that its SR20 aircraft has
been selected by the Civil Aviation Flight University of China
(CAFUC) as an aircraft that will be used to train its pilots. CAFUC
is the largest flight university in the world with more than 8,000
full-time students studying civil aviation and related subjects. It
is the only full-time regular institution of higher education for
civil aviation pilots in China.
The fleet of 20 Cirrus SR20 aircraft will join the existing
CAFUC fleet of 200 airplanes on the Luoyang sub-college campus. In
addition, CAFUC is becoming a training center for Cirrus Aircraft,
where it will train technicians to perform maintenance and other
service work on the company's products.
"This sale is representative of the growth we see for Cirrus as
we enter into global flight training markets," said Ian Bentley,
Vice President and Managing Director at Cirrus Aircraft. "We are
honored to have been chosen by CAFUC to supply these new aircraft.
This sale, and the recent sale to the United States Air Force
Academy continues to drive our position as a major training fleet
supplier in U.S. and global markets."
Headquartered in Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, CAFUC has four
flight training colleges operating over 200 aircraft. CAFUC's
additional seven campuses specialize in areas of flight technology,
air traffic control, aviation engineering, air transport
management, computer science, foreign languages, and aircraft cabin
management. It also houses training centers for simulation flight,
aero engine maintenance, and aircraft repair as well as the Sanxing
General Airline Co., Ltd., and Chinese Civil Aviation Scientific
Research Base.
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