I tried this with very limited success.  As near as I could determine, you just open the AHII mission .mis file with the new editor, make some change and then save it and create a new .res file.  One in air spawn mission seemed to convert, the rest crashed when I tried to run them.  This was back in the late beta days by the way and for a while all the missions that had ground takeoff were crashing on spawn.  I have not tried it lately.