As EBAN goes to press, the Military News Agency has announced the opening of the Business Aviation 2001 show near St. Petersburg. Specialists consider the show to be a kind of rehearsal before the wide-scale aviation show which is to take place during the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg in 2003. Among the exhibits at the show – organised by local defence enterprises, the Civil Aviation Academy and sixth army – will be business aviation aircraft models and new technolgy for servicing aircraft trainers.