MAKS-2001

On the 14-th of July of 2000 in accordance with the request of the Russian legislation the Aviasalon close corporation was reorganized into the public corporation.
The 5-th international show MAKS was held in August 14th-19th of 2001 and was solemnly opened by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, who arrived by helicopter and made a speech.

537 corporations including 115 foreign companies from 34 countries took part in the exhibition. They presented the cutting edge technologies that formed the face of the aviation industry.

166 aircrafts were shown at the static display. Every day the flight program included demonstrational flights of 38 -58 aircraft. Aerobatic teams «Russian Knights», «Swifts», «Rus», «Sky Swallows» made their flights very expressively. For the first time foreign army airplane “Mirage F-1AZ” took part in the demonstration flights.

The 6-th international symposium “Aviation Technologiest of the 21-st Century: New Frontiers of the Aviation Science” was held at the territory of TSAGI

More than 660 000 people visited the exhibition. MAKS 2001 excelled all the world’s most famous shows in the number of visitors.