Compagnie française d'aviation, Flight training center in Angers, France.

Compagnie française d'aviation in Angers is a former school building that spans 97 meters with large glass windows throughout to illuminate the interior spaces. A central portico connects two separate wings, forming the main structural arrangement.

The pilot school opened in 1922 in barracks along the Angers–Segré railway, run by the Paris-based Compagnie Française d'Aviation. Its success led the company to commission a new building from Angers architect Ernest Bricard, opened in 1938 on the road to Avrillé. German troops occupied it in 1940 and Allied bombing hit it in 1944; after the war the school closed and the building stood abandoned until the CAUE de Maine-et-Loire saved it from demolition.

The entrance hall mosaics by Isidore Odorico show the CFA monogram framed by pilot wings and eight aircraft on a tricolour cockade background. Odorico also designed chevron and stair motifs in the classrooms and living spaces on each floor. René Guilleux added a concrete sculpture of an aviator raising the CFA sign and holding a propeller.

The building stands along avenue Gasnier between Angers and Avrillé, on the edge of the A11 northern bypass; the garden-parking and its fence gates facing the avenue are part of the 2004 listed ensemble. The entrance porch is reached by a large staircase, and the Maison de l'architecture occupies the rehabilitated 2005 building.

The central porch, reached by a grand staircase, was designed as an observation point over the airfield, not a rooftop observatory. The building's low height was required because it stood next to a landing strip.