Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Serving all customers in the region, the completion center is capable of simultaneously working on four medium helicopters, such as H175s. Assembly and delivery capacity is 20 helicopters a year.
Boeing said it is holding meetings with cockpit and engineering staff of 737 MAX operators in China, with the aim of keeping them updated on progress in returning the aircraft to service.
COMAC has pushed back its target for certification of the C919 158-seat airliner to 2021 from 2020 following a further indication of flight test delays.