AIR 5428 Pilot Training System by HDR

ArchiPro Project Summary - AIR5428 Pilot Training System: A $320 million initiative enhancing the Australian Defence Force pilot training program with new facilities and advanced flight training systems across multiple sites, including RAAF East Sale, RAAF Pearce, and RAAF GinGin.

Title:: AIR 5428 Pilot Training System
Architect:: HDR
Category:: Community/; Public and Cultural

The AIR5428 Pilot Training System project includes the design and construction of new facilities to support the Australian Defence Force pilot training program. This $320 million project introduces new basic and advanced flight training systems to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire ADF pilot training program, including platforms for flight screening and all phases of pilot training from basic flying, up to entry into the Air Force Lead-in Fighter or other Operational Conversion Units.

The project involves the delivery of facilities and infrastructure across a number of sites:

New Basic Flight Training School and Central Flying School including working accommodation, learning spaces, flight training simulators and aircraft storage and maintenance hangars along with new live-in accommodation for 135 flight cadets at RAAF East Sale, Victoria, totalling 22,000 m²
New working accommodation for Training Aircraft Systems Program Office at RAAF East Sale
New Second Flight Training School including working accommodation, learning spaces, flight training simulators and aircraft storage and maintenance hangars, as well as alterations and additions to other buildings at RAAF Pearce, Western Australia, totalling16,000 m²
New aircraft training support facility at RAAF GinGin and the conversion of the existing Hangar at RAAF Edinburgh, South Australia, to accommodate PC21 aircraft

It also includes aircraft parking aprons and flight line shelters at RAAF East Sale, RAAF Pearce and RAAF GinGin.

This project is being delivered in collaboration with Woods Bagot.

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