Russia has scrapped the 2026 MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon. The government posted the cancellation order on its official legal information portal.
No official reason was given.
Russia still plans to hold MAKS in 2027.
MAKS is Russia’s largest air show. Before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it was held every two years in Zhukovsky, just outside Moscow. It was last held in 2021.
In 2023, the authorities said the air show would be postponed to 2024, and pushed it back again a year later. In 2025, authorities postponed it again. “There will be no MAKS,” Rostec head Sergei Chemezov said at the time. “It’s being moved to next year. You know what’s going on right now,” Chemezov said.
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