Marrakech Airshow 2026: Safran and Embraer in the 8th edition
Marrakech Air Show opens its eighth session next Wednesday with the participation of major international companies such as Safran, Embraer and Lockheed Martin, amid a focus on the Moroccan air and defense industry.
The eighth edition of the Marrakech Air Show will be launched next Wednesday at the Royal Air Force Base in Marrakech, to continue until Saturday, October 10, organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in cooperation with the General Directorate of National Defense, the Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Gendarmerie. The exhibition is one of the most prominent events of the aviation and defense industry in Africa and the Arab world, and this year comes amid a special focus on "Made in Morocco" and the promotion of national industrial sovereignty in this Sector. A wide international participation led by major companies. The eighth session is attended by prominent international companies in the aerospace and defense industry, including Safran, Embraer, Brazil, and Lockheed Martin, in addition to an Emirati national pavilion that includes a number of major defense companies with the support of the UAE Ministry of Defense, including edge and Generation 5 Holdings. The axes of the exhibition this year are distributed among advanced defense systems, artificial intelligence, satellite technologies, smart weapons and systems Self-operating. The most prominent companies participating in the Marrakech Air Show 2026 and their countries the country company Safran France Embraer Brazil Lockheed Martin United States edge (edge) United Arab Emirates Morocco bet on its domestic air and defense industry The exhibition comes at a time when Morocco is betting on the development of its industrial fabric in the aviation and defense sector, which today includes more than 150 local companies operating in this field. This figure reflects the accelerated expansion of this sector in the Kingdom over the years The latter, in parallel with air infrastructure enhancement projects in Marrakech itself, including the Marrakech-Manara airport expansion project funded by €270 million from the African Development Bank. This course comes months after the Emirati company Edge and the French company Safran signed a strategic agreement on the sidelines of the Eurosatory exhibition in France last June, to jointly develop long-range guided weapons, while Generation 5 Holding partnered with Brazil's Embraer about the C-390 Millennium military transport aircraft program. These agreements reflect the expanding presence of the international aerospace and defense industry in the Moroccan and African market in general.