MAKS (Russian: МАКС, Russian: Международный авиационно-космический салон, International Aviation and Space Salon) is an International Air Show held near Moscow, Russia on Zhukovskiy LII air field. The first show, Mosaeroshow-92, was held in 1992. Since 1993, it was renamed to its current name and is held on odd years (MAKS-1993, MAKS-1995, MAKS-1997, MAKS-1999, MAKS-2001, MAKS-2003, MAKS-2005, MAKS-2007, MAKS-2009).
MAKS is an important event in Russian business. Although it started mainly as an entertainment event, the show soon became a marketplace where Russian airplane manufacturers could find export contracts and Russian air carriers could find foreign contacts. The whole event became important through CIS and neighboring countries, due to similarities of the market.
The most recent (IX International Aviation and Space Salon) took place on 18-23 August 2009.
Russian Knights crash 2009
In 2009 Pilot Igor Tkachenko died after a collision in his Russian Knights Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker with another Su-27.
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Media related to MAKS Airshow at Wikimedia Commons- Official MAKS site
- MAKS 2007 site
- Useful information about MAKS Airshow.
- Homepage Russian Knights (SU-27 Flanker team)
- Homepage Russian Knights (MiG-29 Team)
- Homepage Vyazma Rus (L-39 Team)
- Photographies with MAKS'95-97-99-2001-2003-2005
- MAKS 2005 at Google Video
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