Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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Brazil’s Embraer last month signed a long-anticipated agreement to build a production unit in China through a joint venture with AVIC II subsidiaries Harbin Aircraft and Hafei Aviation. The contract creates a new company called Harbin Embraer Aircraft Industry Co., of which Embraer will maintain 51-percent ownership. Under the deal, the companies will build, market and support 37-seat Embraer ERJ-135s, 44-seat ERJ-140s and 50-seat ERJ-145s, the first of which they hope to deliver next December.
Valued at some $25 million, the joint venture’s equity investment will pay for production tooling, setup and employee training for some 220 workers at a 260,000-sq-ft building in Harbin, the capital of China’s Heilongjiang province. Perhaps most significantly for Embraer, the deal will allow the Brazilian company to circumvent cumbersome Chinese import duties and reopen suspended contract negotiations for the sale of 30 jets from China Southern and Wuhan Airlines. The Brazilian manufacturer has sold just five regional jets in China, a market estimated to require between 250 and 300 jets in the 35- to 50-seat range over the next 10 years.

Embraer Lands Chinese Production Deal 

Brazil’s Embraer last month signed a long-anticipated agreement to build a production unit in China through a joint venture with AVIC II subsidiaries Harbi

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