CAE To Supply UK Merlin Helicopter Training Devices
OEM AgustaWestland selected the Canadian company on behalf of the Royal Navy and Marines. Lockheed Martin gets Chinook training contract.
An artists’ impression of the two flight training devices and the rear crew trainer that CAE will provide via AgustaWestland to the UK Royal Navy. (Image: AgustaWestland)
An artists’ impression of the two flight training devices and the rear crew trainer that CAE will provide via AgustaWestland to the UK Royal Navy. (Image: AgustaWestland)

AgustaWestland announced that CAE has been selected to provide synthetic training devices for the UK Royal Navy’s Merlin Mk4/4a marine commando helicopters. The contract is worth about $40 million. Twenty-five former Royal Air Force Merlin Mk3/3a transport helicopters are being modified, upgraded and transferred to the Navy under a separate $545 million contract awarded to the OEM early last year. They are replacing the Sea King helicopters that have served the Royal Marines for more than 30 years.