The biennial Singapore Airshow, Asia’s largest aerospace and defense exhibition, is touting here at Farnborough the event-filled program for its 2018 event, even as the afterglow of the success of this year’s Singapore gathering lingers. The event this past February at the island nation’s Changi Exhibition Centre featured more than 1,000 participating exhibitors, including 65 of the world’s 100 largest aerospace companies. Almost 300 VIP delegations from 90 countries attended, as did more than 48,000 trade attendees from 143 countries. B-to-B meetings increased 8 percent over the 2014 mark and the more than 50 announced deals represented an increase of 16 percent. The 20 country pavilions included the debuts for Indonesia and The Philippines as pavilion hosts.
The static aircraft display featured more than 55 military, commercial and general aviation aircraft, and the airshow performances included the Black Eagles Aerobatic Team from the Republic of South Korea, an integrated display of an F-15SG fighter and AH-64D Apache attack helicopter by the Republic of Singapore Air Force, and a flight demonstration of an A350 XWB airliner from Airbus.
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