Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Kerry Lynch

The U.S. House and Senate are expected to soon begin consideration of a comprehensive highway bill that also would reauthorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank and call on a government watchdog to investigate the diversion of non-commercial aviation jet fuel tax revenues to the Highway Trust Fund. House and Senate lawmakers, which this week reached agreement on the multi-year highway bill, face a December 4 deadline to finish work on it before authorization of the highway programs expires.

 


Ex-Im reauthorization had been included in earlier Senate and House versions of the bill and remained in the final agreement. The House had also included the directive for the Government Accountability Office study of the so-called fuel fraud law, which requires non-commercial aviation jet fuel to be taxed at the highway rate until approved aviation vendors demonstrate that the fuel was used for aviation purposes. Senate negotiators agreed to keep the measure in the final agreement.

 


“Fuel revenues paid for by aviators should be reinvested in U.S. aviation, not in highway and transit infrastructure,” said Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), chief sponsor of the fuel fraud measure. “A GAO report will allow us to better understand the scope of this problem.”

 


NATA president and CEO Tom Hendricks also backed the measure, saying, “NATA has long questioned the need for the 2005 diversion provision and views it as a bureaucratic roadblock draining the Airport and Airway Trust Fund of revenues needed for airport improvements and the deployment of a more modern air traffic control system."

News about bills, laws, regulations and other governmental decisions affecting aviation and aerospace. Topics include FAA re-authorizations, taxes on fuel and aviation activities, environmental legislation, ICAO decisions, governmental mediation of labor conflicts and World Trade Organization disputes and decisions.

Ex-Im Reauthorization, Fuel Fraud Study Near Passage

Congress is set to vote this week on a bill that would also reauthorize the U.S. Ex-Im bank and study general aviation fuel tax revenue diversions.

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Move averts potential shutdown

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His career spanned more than five and a half decades

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