Asian Aerospace show moves to Hong Kong next year

Organiser Reeds finds Hong Kong a better place than Singapore govt's new location

BY A CORRESPONDENT
February 14, 2006

This month's edition of the Asian Aerospace Show 2006, to be held in Changi, Singapore from February 21, will be the last in the series. From next year, the UK-based Reeds Exhibitions, organisers of the show, are moving to Hong Kong following a disagreement with the Government of Singapore over the venue of the show.

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The next Singapore aerospace show will be organised by the Government of Singapore, its civil aviation authority and a different organiser. It will be held in 2008.

The aerospace show is conventionally a biennial event. It has been running sice 1981, but a recent Singapore government plan to expand the Changi airport necessitated the relocation of the Asian Aerospace Show venue. Negotiations with the government for an alternate location collapsed last October. Reeds then announced that the show will be moved to another country, but did not specify which one. Now, they have zoomed in on Hong Kong.

The reborn Asian Aerospace Show will be held from September 3 to 6 in 2007 at the AsiaWorld-Expo complex located close to Hong's Kong International Airport.

Meanwhile, the Singapore government is planning to organise its own global air show from at a new 24-hectare venue from 2008. The new organisers of the Singapore show will be a joint venture between the country's civil aviation authority and the Defence Science and Technology Agency, which will conduct air show every two years.