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.
Beechcraft is finding growing interest in its turboprop aircraft from private customers in China, increasing its reach in the market that had once been primarily limited to aviation schools and government uses. Beechcraft took its first order from a Chinese private buyer in 2011, says Ted Farid, vice president for sales in the Asia-Pacific region. The total is now eight, among 22 Beechcraft aircraft operating in China and 10 on order, Farid said in an interview ahead of the opening of the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition.
