CAE is to provide a turnkey training capability to support the Royal Australian Air Force’s five Airbus A330 multi-role tanker transports under an A$46 million ($34 million) contract. The Canadian company will provide a full flight and mission simulator, mission systems trainer, a training facility and five years of support. The simulator will be delivered in 2008.
Source: Flight International
Croatia’s first six of 12 Dassault Aviation Rafales were transferred to Velika Gorica near Zagreb on 25 April.
Boeing’s defence unit incurred losses of $222 million against a pair of fixed-price contracts in the first quarter of this year, but was buoyed by strong order performance during the same period.
The United Arab Emirates’ fourth GlobalEye surveillance aircraft departed Saab’s Linkoping modification site on 18 April.
