CAE Inc. announced that it has sold seven full-flight simulators (FFSs) and a series of training devices and simulator update services. These include the sale of two Airbus A320 FFSs and a Boeing 737 FFS to Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Center (SEFTC); an A320 to the Zhuhai Flight Training Centre; and a Boeing 737 FFS, an Airbus A320 FFS and a Boeing 787 FFS to undisclosed customers. The contracts are valued at more than CAD 95 million at list prices and bring the total FFS sales that CAE has announced to date during fiscal year 2013 to 30.

Two of the FFS orders were signed in the third quarter ended December 31, 2012 and the remaining five in the fourth quarter. Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Centre, the training centre subsidiary of China Eastern Airlines, will take delivery of three CAE 7000 Series Level D FFSs equipped with CAE Tropos-6000 third-generation visual systems, as well as three integrated procedures trainers (IPTs). The two A320 FFSs, two A320 IPTs and the Boeing 737 IPT will be delivered in 2013 to SEFTC at its facilities at Shanghai Pudong Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone in China.

The Boeing 737 FFS will be delivered in 2014 to SEFTC's new training centre in Kunming, China. With the delivery of these simulators, SEFTC and China Eastern will be operating 16 CAE- built FFSs. Zhuhai Flight Training Centre will take delivery of the A320 FFS in 2013.