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.
SEOUL — South Korea sees an opportunity for a large local production run by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) as it considers the three contenders for its F-X Phase 3 fighter requirement, industry officials say.
Whether and where to build a new plant is one of the issues that Cessna, Avic and the Chengdu city government are negotiating as they work toward agreeing on assembly of the U.S. company’s Citation Sovereign business jet in China. The first Citation Sovereign delivery in China may not take place by year’s end, as originally planned, says a person involved in the complex talks, which also include the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the FAA.
The MA600F freighter, a key program for Avic’s main turboprop line, has entered flight testing. The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) team handling the type certificate conducted ground inspections of the aircraft, a version of the MA600 passenger aircraft, mid-March. The CAAC now has issued the necessary permit for test flying, says manufacturer Avic, although the MA600F made its first flight Oct. 24, 2012.
