Welcome to the CATC Sri Lanka !
The Civil Aviation Training Centre, Sri Lanka is the training arm of Airport & Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Ltd., the fully state owned company vested with the responsibility of managing all civil airports in Sri Lanka and providing aviation services within the Colombo, Flight Information Region (FIR).
We are situated at Kandawala Road, a residential sector in the industrial suburb of Ratmalana, close to the Colombo domestic airport.
History
The Civil Aviation Training Centre Sri Lanka was founded in 1984 through an ICAO/UNDP Project. Its primary aim was to enable the company to train its own personnel in the specialized aviation disciplines to provide airport facilities and aviation services . Initially, facilities were commissioned for the training of Air Traffic Controllers, Aeronautical Communication Officers, Technical Officers maintaining communication equipment, Airport Security and Fire Services Personnel.
In 1990 we acquired more training equipment under the same project for training in navigational aids maintenance.
Over the years we have grown from a company training division that caters to organizational requirements to a regional training institution which caters to the region. We are also the national institution in Sri Lanka for training in disciplines of Air Traffic Services, Aeronautical Communications, Electronics & Air Navigation Engineering, Airport Security and Airport Fire Services. Today, we have a TRAINAIR Course Development Unit symbolizing our ability to design training packages as per the standards stipulated by the TRAINAIR Central Unit of the ICAO, enabling us to deliver training of the highest quality.
Given below is a concise timeline of our evolvement:
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1984 - |
Founded through ICAO/UNDP project |
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1990 - |
Nav Aids training equipment commissioned |
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1992 - |
First group of international students |
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2000 - |
New ATC tower and RADAR simulator commissioned |
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2005 - |
First international affiliation |
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2007 - |
Admitted as TRAINAIR member |
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2009 - |
Fully geared for regional training |
What we offer
Our courses include all the standard programmes required for the training of personnel in the provision of airport services and all of them are open for regional participation. In addition we also have a line up of non-aviation and general programmes for the local industrial sector.
Our resource personnel are predominantly drawn from among the qualified, experienced and trained personnel in our company’s services and are supplemented by external resource personnel drawn from the airlines, local universities, regulatory bodies and professional institutions. |
