>>> Changi International Airshow - 2008
by Derek Yeo


TWENTY O EIGHT will not be just the year of the Beijing Olympics.

It will also be the year of the first Changi International Airshow, to be held at a new purpose-built and permanent exhibition centre in Changi North. The new show will replace Asian Aerospace after the latter's last show at its site near Changi Village, from 21 to 26 February 2006.

The government has earmarked the site for airport redevelopment and expansion.

Reed Exhibitions - the organiser of Asian Aerospace - and Singapore's Economic Development Board could not agree on AA's future direction in Singapore. A new company - Changi International Airshow and Events Pte Ltd - jointly set up by Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and Defence Science Technology Agency will manage the new show.

The new company has roped in aviation veterans Lim Chin Beng and Jimmy Lau as Chairman and Managing Director to launch the new Asian airshow.

Asian Aerospace itself is expected post-2008, to move to another Asian city.

The question on everyone's lips is: Will CIA* be as successful as or even more successful than Asian Aerospace?



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* Any resemblance to the initials of that famous agency is just coincidental.