ZHUKOVSKY (Moscow Region), August 26 (RIA Novosti) - The value of contracts signed at the MAKS-2007 air show outside Moscow has exceeded $3 billion, the organizers said Sunday, citing preliminary results.
MAKS-2007 is an aviation exhibition held every two years in the town of Zhukovsky, which hosts a military airbase. The air show, which opened August 21 and is coming to a close August 26, has gathered over 540 Russian companies and 247 foreign firms from 39 countries this year, the organizers said.
The MAKS-2007 air show has attracted more than 600,000 visitors who have been able to see over 260 aircraft, most of them made domestically, and watch 35 types of planes to perform about 200 demonstration flights, the organizers said.
