Taipei Songshan Airport expects to begin developing a business aviation base around the end of this year when it takes control of a former military hangar. The downtown airport will follow up with a customs, immigration and quarantine facility for users of private aircraft next year while seeking a fixed-base operator to build a business aviation center, says airport Deputy Director Chen Jauyuh.

The C919 is part of a broad Chinese government plan to advance the country’s technological base, with the bonus of reinforcing support for the Communist Party.

Japan’s defense ministry proposes to develop a sixth-generation manned fighter with strong counter-stealth capability and a directed-energy weapon. While a program description issued by the ministry is ambiguous, full-scale development of the sixth-generation i3 fighter would evidently begin in 2021 after at least a decade of predevelopment of a batch of technologies. The aircraft would go into service in the 2030s. A second batch of technologies would be ready in the 2040s, suggesting that an improved version would then be fielded.