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AIRSHOW | MAKS-2007
MAKS 2007 sets records
Held on Gromov LII’s premises from
21 to 26 August, the 8th International
Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2007
exceeded previous events in terms of the
number of participants and became a
world leading air show. 787 companies,
including 540 from Russia and 247 foreign
ones from 39 countries, took part
in the show, which is 133 companies,
or over 20 per cent, more than last
time. 279 civil and military aircraft were
displayed – a 58-aircraft (26-per cent)
increase over MAKS 2005, with 55 aircraft
exhibited by foreign participants.
The world’s major aircraft manufacturers
took part in the air show.
The exposition of space-related products
grew by more than 30 per cent,
occupying pavilions, which area totalled
more than 32,000 sq.m. Chalets for
negotiations numbered 76.
Foreign participation increased considerably
too. 247 foreign companies
attended – an 84-per cent increase over
MAKS 2005, with 79 of them being
newcomers. The number of national
expositions grew too. The public and
experts had an opportunity to see the
expositions of Germany (25 companies),
France (22), United States (13), China
(14), Belgium (17), Ukraine (15) and the
Czech Republic (8).
A key feature of MAKS 2007, setting
it apart from the previous and foreign air
shows, was the conduct of international
scientific conferences, seminars and
roundtables, in which leading Russian
and foreign scientists, designers and
engineers spoke on latest trends in aircraft
development and manufacture.
The flight demonstration of aircraft at
MAKS 2007 routinely one-upped demonstration
programmes of other international
aerospace shows. 62 aircraft of
4
different types and in different versions
flew 328 sorties at MAKS 2007. The
world-renowned display teams Russian
Knights, Swifts and Patrouille de France
attracted a lot of spectators, as did the
MAKS 2007’s position among major international air shows in 2006-2007
Le Bourget
2007
Farnborough
2006
ILA
2006
MAKS
2007
Participant companies 2000 1480 1014 787
Participant countries 42 35 42 39
Aircraft demonstrated 140 145 340 279
Total visitors 314,000 270,000 250,000 725,000
Business visitors 154,000 140,000 115,000 127,000
Public 160,000 130,000 135,000 598,000
Russian Falcons military display team
from Lipetsk, who debuted this year with
a mock dogfight staged by four Su-27
and Su-30 fighters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin
attended the opening ceremony of
MAKS 2007, saying that the show could
potentially turn into the major forum
of business partnership in aviation and
space exploration.
The first three days of the air show
were dedicated to business, with over
300 business meetings conducted,
including signatures of contracts, agreements
and MoU. The total worth of the
agreements signed exceeded $3 billion.
The key international deals clinched
in the course of the show include
the memorandum on the contract for
six Sukhoi Su-27SKM and Su-30MK2
fighters for Indonesia coming into
force, the agreements on delivery by
the Ilyushin Finance leasing company
of five Tupolev Tu-204s to Iran and two
Tu-204s and three Antonov An-148s to
Cuba, the signature of the memoran-
dum of understanding and cooperation
by Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation
(UAC) and Aviation of Ukraine state
aircraft-making concern, MiG Corp.’s
contracts with Kazakhstan and Poland
on MRO and support of earlier-delivered
aircraft, etc. During the air show,
several major deals were made on
making and delivering Tu-204, Il-96 and
An-148 aircraft and engines to power
them to Russian carriers.
In all, MAKS 2007 was attended by
725,000 people – more than 40 per cent
increase over the previous show and the
record for all international air shows!
The event prompted unheard-of interest
of the media, with 3,644 reporters from
713 media covering MAKS 2007 from
46 countries.
take-off november 2007 www.take-off.ru
Sergey Sergeyev
Alexey Mikheyev
Andrey Fomin