Aerospace and Titanium Trade Shows 2027 for Hard-Alloy Buyers

If you buy machined titanium, Inconel or hardened steel parts, six shows between December 2026 and February 2028 matter, and two more may. Aeromart Toulouse (1 to 3 December 2026), AeroDef in Detroit (12 to 15 April 2027), the Paris Air Show (14 to 20 June 2027), the World Titanium Conference in Berlin (12 to 17 September 2027), the Dubai Airshow (15 to 19 November 2027) and the Singapore Airshow (15 to 20 February 2028) have dates published by their organisers. Titanium USA in 2027 and Farnborough in 2028 had none we could confirm as of October 2026.

This is a calendar for buyers, not an invitation to a stand. We are a trading company that buys the machining from shops in a network we manage and sells you the finished part, and we use the shows only as context for what buyers ask us about.

The calendar

Show	Dates	City and venue	Organiser	What the organiser’s page calls it
Aeromart Toulouse (16th edition)	1 to 3 December 2026	Toulouse, MEETT	Advanced Business Events and BCI Aerospace	An exhibition with business meetings and a conference programme, for the aerospace supply chain
AeroDef Manufacturing	12 to 15 April 2027	Detroit, Huntington Place	SME	An aerospace and defence manufacturing conference
Paris Air Show	14 to 20 June 2027	Paris	SIAE (the organiser’s site, siae.fr)	Separate sections for professionals and the general public
16th World Titanium Conference (Ti-2027)	12 to 17 September 2027	Berlin, Freie Universität, and online	German Society for Materials Science (DGM)	An international conference
Dubai Airshow	15 to 19 November 2027	Dubai World Central, airshow site	Not named on the page we read	Next edition of the airshow
Singapore Airshow	15 to 20 February 2028	Changi Exhibition Centre	Not named on the page we read	Next edition of the airshow

Dates and venues read from each organiser’s own site in October 2026: aeromart-toulouse.com, aerodefevent.com, siae.fr, titanium2027.com, dubaiairshow.aero and singaporeairshow.com. The Paris page we read does not say which days are for professionals only. Dates can move, so confirm before you book.

Not confirmed by the organiser as of October 2026:

• Titanium USA 2027, International Titanium Association. The association’s registration pages show Boston on 28 to 30 September 2025 and Las Vegas on 4 to 6 October 2026. Its own website did not load for us, and we found no organiser page with 2027 dates.
• Farnborough International Airshow 2028. The organiser’s site shows a countdown and no calendar date for 2028.

Which show fits which buyer

Aeromart Toulouse suits a procurement manager or supplier-quality engineer who wants pre-arranged meetings with other companies in the aerospace supply chain. Its page describes pre-booked business meetings alongside an exhibition and a conference. It is the first date on the list and falls in 2026.

AeroDef is a manufacturing conference for aerospace and defence, so it fits a buyer who cares about production methods more than airframes. Defence-adjacent parts have an extra step, covered below.

The Paris Air Show is the largest on the list and the broadest. Expect aircraft, engines and a wide supply chain. It is a good place to see who is in the industry and a poor place to go through a drawing.

Ti-2027 in Berlin is a conference on titanium technology and materials research. A design engineer who wants to hear about alloys, processes and applications will get more from it than a buyer who needs a price. It runs for six days, in person and online.

Dubai and Singapore are airshows with a regional reach. They matter if you buy for operators and maintenance organisations in those regions.

How to use a show visit

Most buyers leave a show with a stack of cards and no quote. A visit works when it has a job. Three jobs are realistic.

1. See the market once. Find out which shops, mills and tooling makers work in your alloy, and which of them talk about parts like yours.
2. Hold a few pre-booked meetings. Aeromart is built for this. Book them in advance, because a visit without appointments is mostly browsing.
3. Ask the questions you cannot ask by email. What the shop does on a first article, how it handles a delay, how it controls change. Our posts on ten questions to ask a titanium shop and how a titanium machining shop gets vetted give a list.

Two cautions. A stand shows what a company wants to be seen doing, not what it can run on your part. And a machine list on a banner is not evidence of coolant pressure, calibrated inspection or traceability; our note on a machine list as a sales document explains why.

Planning around the dates

The calendar falls into three clusters. From December 2026 to June 2027 sit the three shows closest to aerospace buying: Aeromart, AeroDef and Paris. September to November 2027 holds the Berlin titanium conference and the Dubai Airshow. Singapore follows in February 2028, and Farnborough is expected after that, though the organiser had not published its dates when we looked.

Work backwards from the show to the part. If a conversation in April is meant to end in parts on a bench in the autumn, the metal is usually the slow item, not the machining; our note on why the lead time is the metal explains how to order early. Dates also move, and organisers revise venues and days, so read the organiser’s page again in the month before you travel, and treat any list of dates, this one included, as a starting point.

After the show: drawing, NDA, quote

A conversation at a show ends with the same four steps whoever you spoke to.

1. Send the drawing at its current revision, with alloy and condition, quantity and delivery date. Our list of what to include in a confidential titanium RFQ package says what a shop needs.
2. Put the confidentiality in writing before the drawing moves. Our quote form has the NDA ticked by default, and the note on what an NDA covers on a titanium RFQ explains why.
3. Expect a compliance questionnaire. Buyers back from a show are increasingly asked where their parts come from and who touched them. Our note on forced-labour and ESG questions for a machined-parts trading company lists what to ask and what we can and cannot show.
4. Compare the quotes on the same basis. Two titanium quotes for one part can differ by a large factor for reasons that have nothing to do with skill, which this note on quote differences takes apart.

If the part is for an aerospace research programme or has a defence connection, tell us at the start. We screen aerospace and defence-adjacent requests for export control and decline what we cannot lawfully receive or machine. Where a licence or end-use statement is required, the order does not start until it is in place; the section on export control in our terms of sale says so, and the industries page lists the sectors we take and decline.

Using the shows without the travel

If you cannot get to a show, the useful part is still available. Send the drawing, and a priced quote comes back within 24 business hours. We are a trading company: you get one contact, one PO and one invoice, an engineer follows every order, you receive a weekly progress update, and the part is inspected before packing. We hold no manufacturing certificate and no social audit, and we say so rather than leave it to a booth banner. For a first order, our description of the trial order shows how it is placed, followed and judged. Get a quote with the drawing and the date you need the parts.

Sources

• Aeromart Toulouse, organiser page for the 16th edition, read October 2026.
• SME, AeroDef, read October 2026.
• SIAE, Paris Air Show, read October 2026.
• German Society for Materials Science (DGM), 16th World Titanium Conference, read October 2026.
• Dubai Airshow, organiser site, read October 2026.
• Singapore Airshow, organiser site, read October 2026.
• International Titanium Association, Titanium 2026 registration page on Cvent and archived Titanium USA 2025 page.
• Farnborough International Airshow, organiser site, read October 2026.