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.
You can tell when the top leadership of China is not satisfied with an economic sector. It fires off a public memo addressed to the provinces, certain major cities and central government departments. It lists its gripes, sets out its objectives and states what it wants done. Then it hopes they will listen. Such a memo, better called a policy guideline, has just emerged with the stamp of the state council, China's equivalent of the national cabinet. Its subject is aviation.
Hawker Beechcraft intends to sell off its business and general aviation and customer support businesses to China’s Superior Aviation Beijing under a potential $1.79 billion deal. The Wichita, Kan.-based manufacturer entered an exclusivity agreement with Superior as part of an ongoing review of strategic options, and says it “decided to proceed with Superior after determining that its proposal would create the greatest value for the company and position it for long-term growth.”
