CESDA Celebrates 25 Years of Turning Aviation Dreams into Reality in Reus

The pilot school marks its silver jubilee by honoring the founders who established the center as a national benchmark.

Generic image of a scale model airplane on a table in an aviation training center.
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Generic image of a scale model airplane on a table in an aviation training center.

Activists and former officials gathered in Reus this Monday to launch the 25th-anniversary celebrations of CESDA, the prestigious aviation school that has trained over 800 commercial pilots.

During an event at El Círcol, founders Tomàs Barberà and Andreu Pujol shared the history of the institution, which began as a bold vision in the late 1990s. Today, CESDA is a self-funded center affiliated with URV university, boasting a 95% job placement rate for its graduates in major international airlines.
The center currently operates 13 aircraft and 4 flight simulators, including an Airbus 320 unit. With 38% female enrollment in the latest cohort, the school continues to grow, maintaining high academic standards and a strong reputation within the European aerospace sector.