CAE Oxford

CAE Oxford

Headquarters of Oxford Aviation Academy (Oxford Airport, Oxford, Great Britain)
Established	1961
Address	CAE, London Oxford Airport, Kidlington, Oxford, OX5 1QX, UK
Website	http://www.cae.com/becomeapilot

CAE Oxford, part of CAE Inc., is an ab initio flight training network. It provides integrated aviation training and resourcing services. Professional airline pilots have been trained at the Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) flight school since 1961.

OAA operates 125 training aircraft, 64 flight simulators, and 10 training centers, delivering a portfolio of aviation training courses. OAA's 3 ab initio airline pilot training^[1] schools have trained more than 26,000 professional pilots over the past 50 years. OAA's seven training centers offer approved airline pilot, cabin crew^[2] and maintenance engineer^[3] training on a wide range of aircraft types including Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, BAE Systems, and Embraer.

The Oxford Aviation Academy includes the former Oxford Aviation Training, a commercial pilot training school based at London Oxford Airport in the United Kingdom; Falcon Field in Arizona, United States; the former SAS Flight Academy; the former GECAT and the former BAE Systems Woodford, United Kingdom Training Centre, all of which are majority owned by STAR Capital Partners of London with a minority stake of less than 20% retained by GE Commercial Aviation Services.

The Airline Pilot Programme First Officer course is a full-time, integrated Civil Aviation Authority / European Union Aviation Safety Agency (CAA/EASA) course leading to the award of a 'Frozen' (becoming unfrozen when the candidate has completed 1,500 hours in a multi-pilot environment) airline transport pilot licence (ATPL).