A new expectation has been added to the expectations of growth in the civilian sector of the aviation industry: will the MAX be moved from Zhukovsky to Kubinka to please the military or not? MAKS 2017 took place against the backdrop of a difficult political and economic situation in Russia and the world, which significantly affects the domestic aviation industry. Negative factors affected MAKS-2017 accordingly.

Shortly before the opening of MAKS-2017, photographs of the A-100LL flying laboratory based on the Il-76 aircraft, created for work on a new complex of long-range radar surveillance and guidance (AWACS), appeared in the public press. For the first time, the flying laboratory A-100LL took off from the airfield of the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex (TANTK) named after. G.M.