L-3 Link Simulation & Training UK

L3 Commercial Training Solutions Limited

A RealitySeven full flight simulator in operation
Type	Private limited company (subsidiary)
Industry	Flight simulation, flight training
Predecessors	Link Aviation Devices Singer Link Miles Redifon Thales Training & Simulation
Founded	August 2012; 5 years ago (2012-08)
Headquarters	Manor Royal, Crawley, United Kingdom
Key people	Alan Crawford, Director
Products	RealitySeven
Services	Ab initio flight training, airline training
Number of employees	300 (2017)
Parent	L3 Technologies
Website	www.l3cts.com

L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) is a flight training provider and manufacturer of civil flight simulators based in Crawley, England. It is a subsidiary of American simulator manufacturer L-3 Link Simulation & Training, itself part of L3 Technologies, and was formed as L-3 Link Simulation & Training UK in 2012, when L3 acquired the civil fixed-wing simulation division of Thales Training & Simulation (TTS).

L3 CTS was incorporated in 2006 as "L-3 Communications Group Limited", acting as holding company for the L-3 group in the United Kingdom. In 2012, when TTS was partially acquired, the company's name was changed to "L-3 Communications Link Simulation and Training UK Limited" (L-3 Link UK).

In May 2015, the subsidiary L-3 CTC was formed, following the acquisition of British flight training provider CTC aviation, and in July 2016, L-3 Link UK and L-3 CTC were consolidated into L3 Commercial Training Solutions.

L3 CTS and TTS are still co-located on the same site in Manor Royal, Crawley, and share the same ancestry, rooted in the US simulation business created by Ed Link in the 1930s and in the British simulator manufacturer Redifon (later Rediffusion).

L3 CTS's core product is the RealitySeven line of full flight simulators, which covers a wide range of aircraft types, from single-aisle A320 and Boeing 737 to wide-bodies Boeing 787 and A350.

A major part of the business is also the provision of flight training services, including cadet selection, ab initio training and airline training, both in the UK and in Bangkok, Thailand, through the controlled Asian Aviation Training Center, which was acquired as part of the TTS deal.