FARNBOROUGH, England, July 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Farnborough
International Airshow (FIA) closed today after a highly successful week in
which over US$38 billion of business was announced together with major new
product and programme launches.
FIA 2006 was one of the biggest in recent memory with 1480 exhibitors
from 35 countries taking part. Some 75 defence delegations from 43
countries attended, along with 40 civil aerospace delegations from 15
countries. Trade show attendance figures during the week are expected to
top the 2004 level of 133,000.
Trevor Sidebottom, Managing Director of Farnborough International
Limited, the airshow organiser said today: "We have had a truly fantastic
airshow this year. From the scale of business announced, the high calibre
of the visitors attending and the fact that companies are using our airshow
to make significant product or partnership announcements, there is no doubt
that Farnborough International Airshow is the world's pre-eminent business
to business airshow."
International aerospace companies used the airshow to announce
significant new business worth in excess of US$38 billion. Orders have been
announced from across the aerospace spectrum, covering civil and defence
products, aero- engines, the supply chain, the MRO sector, training,
equipment and services.
New products on display at the airshow included the Airbus A380, the
Raytheon ASTOR Sentinel surveillance aircraft, a host of new business jet
types and the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey. Bell Boeing used Farnborough
International Airshow to launch an international sales drive for the
aircraft.
The most significant new product launch this week was the new Airbus
A350XWB airliner, which by the end of the week had secured its first order.
The rotary winged sector was very busy with the X-Hawk Fancraft from Bell
Helicopter and Urban Aeronautics of Israel, the new AugustaWestland AW149
multi-role helicopter and two new variants of the Sikorsky Black Hawk being
announced.
Raytheon of the USA unveiled its AT-6 Joint Airborne Weapons System --
a light attack version of the T6B turboprop trainer, Honeywell launched its
Synthetic Vision System for a business jet with the first to be installed
next year on the Gulfstream range of aircraft, and Lockheed Martin used the
airshow to reveal details of its all-composite long-range high altitude
P-175 Polecat UAV.
Several new collaborative ventures were launched at the airshow, among
them being Pratt & Whitney's new strategic alliances for possible
powerplants for future medium range twinjets and Bombardier's partnership
agreement with Shenyang Aircraft for the manufacture of Dash 8-400
fuselages. Of great UK significance was the announcement of the Team
Complex Weapons strategy by Lord Drayson, Minister of State for Defence
Procurement under the auspices of the Defence Industrial Strategy.
From Farnborough International Limited, organisers of Farnborough
International Airshow. For more details see http://www.farnborough.com
SOURCE Farnborough International Airshow
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