This year the focus is is on Adcom's global expansion. As well as showcasing two new aircraft, the company announced that it is to start manufacturing and flying its aircraft in the UK.

The Beechcraft AT-6 Wolverine on static display at the show has had an eventful recent history.

Boeing says it does not feel pressured to increase the planned production rate of the 737 beyond the currently committed 52 per month in 2018 despite the recent announcement by Airbus that it plans to boost A320 family production to 60 per month by 2019.

Boeing says the ripening market for a new middle-of-the-market aircraft seating between 220 and 280 passengers could see sales “in the thousands.”

Fresh off completing the sale of six A-29 Super Tucano to Lebanon, Embraer and its partner Sierra Nevada seek to expand the aircraft’s inroads in the Middle East and Africa with its first-ever Dubai Airshow display of the light attack aircraft.

Across the Middle East, the region’s airports are expanding, but nothing quite on the scale of development to be seen here in Dubai.

After years of searching for a foothold on the Indian sub-continent, ExecuJet Middle East has partnered with an as yet unnamed Indian partner to operate a fixed-base and maintenance operation at New Delhi International Airport.

There are a number of ironies surrounding the growing maturity of the military unmanned air systems market as far as the Middle East is concerned.