Paris Welcomes 51st Salon du Bourget
This year's Paris Air Show features about 2,400 exhibitors, up 100 from last year.
Organizers of the Paris Air Show say they have made the biennial event more user-friendly for exhibitors and visitors alike. [Photo: David McIntosh]
Organizers of the Paris Air Show say they have made the biennial event more user-friendly for exhibitors and visitors alike. [Photo: David McIntosh]

This year marks the 51st installment of the City of LIght's biennial celebration of all things aeronautical, the Paris Air Show. Open from June 19 to 25 at Paris-Le Bourget Airport, the show will be inaugurated by newly elected French President Emmanuel Macron. French aerospace industry group Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales (Gifas) expects this year’s show to host more than the 351,500 visitors that traveled from all over the world for the 2015 show. The 2017 salon is expecting approximately 2,400 exhibitors, up from 2015’s 2,303 exhibitors. While half of the exhibitors are foreign companies, the U.S. is the largest country to be represented, with more than 350 companies on the static displays, in chalets and exhibit halls.

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