The home of British aviation is hosting the second biggest airshow in the world this week

Aerospace professionals from around the world are gathering in north Hampshire this week for the Farnborough international airshow.

Organisers say they will be welcoming 1636 exhibitors – more than half of them from overseas, added to that are more than 100,000 visitors, and nearly 2000 journalists to report it all.

Farnborough is on one hand an air display, but the flying is just a small part of what goes on – over a show site in excess of half a million square metres (the size of 78 football pitches) trade stands representing manufacturers and organisations from around the world do business. There are also conferences with keynote speakers including the head of NASA.

The number of international pavilions exhibiting at the show has increased, with the likes of India, Australia, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and Switzerland hosting representatives from the global industry. But the 2026 show will be the host of the largest US presence in the airshow’s history, with the likes of The US Pavilion by Kallman Worldwide, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bell Textron, and GE Aerospace occupying tens of thousands of square meters on the site.