Sorry Erik, I am just now seeing this post. I had the exact same issue and posted a question about it over on the Adobe AIR forum. Apparently, the Apache installer uses and older AIR 32 release. When I installed AIR 32 directly from Adobe, it included the 12.1 SDK, and problem was solved.
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