MAKS-2005

In the August 16th - 21th of 2005 the 7th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS – 2005 was held on the territory of the “Gromov’s FRI” federal state unitary enterprise.
MAKS – 2005 was solemnly opened with the presence of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin, who came by the Mi-8 helicopter. In his greeting speach to the MAKS’s participants V.V.Putin mentioned an increased interest to the MAKS and underlined, that such an interest is easily understandable because our country is known all over the world as one of the most progressive in the aviation and space industry. He also mentioned the large intellectual potential of Russia and said that our engineers often offer interesting and easy solutions and what is especially important is that our aircraft are of reasonable price.

654 companies including 520 from Russia, CIS countries and Baltia participated. 40 countries were represented on the MAKS – 2005 by the expositions of the cutting edge technologies and products that form the face of the world’s aviation and space industry of the 21st century.

At the static display more than 200 aircrafts of different type were shown, the majority of them being of Russian manufacture. Foreign countries showed 62 aircrafts including 9 military airplanes of the US Air Force among which the supersonic strategic bomber B-1B was shown for the first time. At the separate area 18 battle-trainer aircrafts of French “Patrouille de France” and Italian “Frecce Tricolori” aerobatic teams were placed.

The exposition of the aviation-and-space machinery and gadgetry was considerably enlarged and occupied 38 halls of 30 000 sq.m. of total area, exhibitors being divided by themes. The number of business-chalets for the negotiations also increased (up ot 71), the total area of these chalets reached 6000 sq.m.

The unique demonstration flight program was held during the show. 240 flights were made in 6 days. The visitors could see 49 types of aircraft: fighters, trainers, helicopters, strategic bombers, transport and cargo aircrafts.