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11 13 December 2012
| Every two years, dating back to 2004, Dubai hosts the Middle East Business Aviation trade show. The show is a great opportunity |
| for key buyers and decision makers to gain access to the Middle East aviation market. It is set up to connect buyers |
| and sellers alike, with regional traditions prevailing and the Arabian way of doing business is linked to its strong sense of |
| hospitality which relies on personal contact to forge business relationships. This year it was held from 11 till 13 December. |
| So far the official introduction, now let us look at the show from our perspective. First of all the show was held at Dubai’s |
| new airport: Al Maktoum at Dubai World Central. The airport is massive and only recently opened up to commercial traffic, |
| although for the moment it is limited to cargo flights only. Where Dubai International is closely located to the city itself, |
| Al Maktoum is about a 45 minute drive out of town. The show itself was held in the international passenger terminal, which |
| was converted to host a wide variety of exhibitors, and led to the entrance of the static outside of the terminal. The |
| static was rather small compared to other business aviation trade shows like the NBAA and EBACE, but still hosted a good |
| amount of aircraft and one helicopter. As is mostly the case at trade shows, they were parked quite close together, preventing |
| decent photos from being made. Since the number of static aircraft was reasonably limited, it would take one less |
| than an hour to walk around to see, write down and photograph all static aircraft. Whilst you would expect to see some |
| rather exotic aircraft in this region, in fact most on display can be seen on a regular basis in Europe. Combine this with |
| a visitor pass (valid for all three days of the show, although after a few hours you would have seen it all) of US$50 |
| and it is almost worth thinking twice about before you would attend the show. |
| That all being said, have a look at the following list of displayed aircraft and see for yourself. They were seen on the |
| morning of the first day of the show. |
| A6-AJC | A318-112 | Al Jaber Aviation |
| A6-MVD | CL-605 | Gulf Wings |
| A7-CEE | Global 5000 | Qatar Gvmt |
| F-WWJV | Falcon 2000LX | N702FJ under F-reg | 702 |
| F-WWVJ | Falcon 900LX | Dassault Aviation | 263 |
| G-CNUK | Falcon 7X | TAG Aviation UK |
| G-URRU | CL-605 | Executive Jet Charter |
| HB-FVW | PC-12/47E | AMAC Corp. Jet | 1299 |
| HZ-KME1 | Ce560XLS |
| HZ-SBS3 | Ce208 | 208-00515 |
| HZ-SA02 | DA40NL | 40N-012 |
| HZ-SA19 | DA42NG | 42N-039 |
| HZ-SPAG | Falcon 7X | Saudia Private Aviation |
| M-ABFM | Falcon 7X | Dassault Aviation |
| N11BY | Ce400 | Cessna Aircraft |
| N96RX | Ce750 |
| N450GD | G450 | Gulfstream | 4225 |
| N550GD | G550 | Gulfstream | 5305 |
| N805EU | Beech 350i | Hawker Beechcr. | FL-805 |
| N883KA | Beech 250 | BY-143 |
| N8020J | Beech C90GTx | Seacap Leasing | LJ-2020 |
| N10984 | Bell 429 | Bell Helic. Textron | 57003 |
| P4-CLA | B767-2DXER | Comlux Aviation |
| P4-GJL | CL-800 | Avcon Jet |
| PT-TLS | ERJ190BJ | Embraer to become A6-AJJ |
| PT-TRR | EMB505 | Embraer |
| SX-GJN | Global XRS | Gainjet |
| TS-IOO | B737-7H3 | Tunisian Gvmt |
| UP-EM007 | ERJ135BJ | Comlux Aviation |
| VP-BSK | Global 5000 | CCC |
| VP-CCJ | A319-115X | Aravco |
| VP-CKM | Global 5000 | Arab Wings |
| VT-JSB | Global Express | Jindal Steel & Power |
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