Sheinbaum inaugurates the 2025 Mexican Aerospace Fair showcasing a US $11.2B industry

President Claudia Sheinbaum inaugurated the 2025 Mexican Aerospace Fair connected Tuesday, the sixth variation of a large lawsuit aimed astatine promoting trade, concern and occupation instauration successful Mexico’s increasing aerospace industry.

The fair, taking spot this twelvemonth astatine Military Air Base No. 1 successful Santa Lucía, México state, is regarded arsenic the astir important aeronautical information and defence lawsuit successful Mexico and volition tally done April 26.

President Sheinbaum tours the Aerospace Fair with Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla. In her opening remarks, the president said the worth of Mexico’s aerospace manufacture could much than treble from US $11.2 billlion to $22.7 cardinal by 2029.(Presidencia/Cuartoscuro)

Participating successful the 2025 Aerospace Fair are 337 companies, 48 countries, 20 aerial forces, 10 Mexican states, 18 municipalities, 12 universities and six aerospace organizations. Also connected tract are 67 home craft and six United States Air Force combat planes.

During her speech, Sheinbaum pointed retired that the Mexican aerospace manufacture is valued astatine implicit US $11.2 billion, with the imaginable to scope $22.7 cardinal by 2029.

“Mexico ranks among the apical 5 countries for overseas concern successful the aerospace industry, and is the twelfth largest exporter of aerospace components globally,” the president said. 

She added that by the extremity of Q2 of 2024, 386 manufacturing companies successful the assemblage were operating successful Mexico crossed 19 states. Currently, Mexico hosts 370 specialized plants that wide make 50,000 nonstop jobs and 190,000 indirect jobs, she noted. 

Head of the Mexican Aerospace Fair Committee, Disraeli Gómez Herrera, emphasized that the yearly lawsuit forms portion of Plan México — Sheinbaum’s economical task to enactment Mexico’s improvement arsenic 1 of the world’s largest manufacturing hubs — arsenic it seeks to presumption the state arsenic a planetary person successful aerospace manufacturing and technology.

Querétaro successful the Bajío portion and Baja California are the states that person attracted the largest overseas nonstop concern (FDI) successful the aerospace industry, concentrating 24.3% and 20.1%, respectively. 

Oaxaca, 1 of the participating states astatine the fair, announced it volition contiguous the vocational grooming programs successful exertion offered successful the state’s 8 regions, arsenic good arsenic beforehand the improvement of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Interoceanic Corridor (CIIT).

Finally, Gómez added that the Mexican Army’s “Guerreros Águila” (Eagle Warriors) leap squad volition marque its archetypal authoritative quality astatine this fair.

With reports from Quadrantin Oaxaca