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Representational PictureBengaluru: Global aerospace major Airbus on Wednesday opened its training centre for commercial pilots and maintenance engineers at Haryana’s Gurugram in the National Capital Region (NCR). The facility will complement Airbus India’s training centre in Bengaluru which has trained over 4,500 maintenance engineers since its inception in 2007, the statement said. However, the spokesperson did not disclose the investment being made by the company in the training centre. The centre includes an A320 simulator for full-flight simulation and programmes on aircraft procedure training, computer-based classroom training and standard pilot transition training, the company said in a statement. “Through the centre, we aim to train 8,000 commercial pilots and 2,000 maintenance engineers over the next 10 years,” an Airbus spokesperson told IANS at the Aero India air show..