The year 2015 began with promise of a busy one in Washington with U.S. FAA reauthorization coming to the forefront, new resolve to address tax policy and lawmakers ready to move quickly on funding bills. Also, a Part 23 rewrite was widely anticipated in the year and hope remained for resolution on the aircraft management fee tax assessments.
But as 2015 came to its conclusion, the year ended like many before it, with the U.S. Congress scrambling to finish work on federal funding and hammer out an agreement on tax policy. FAA reauthorization was already in stopgap mode. Personnel turnover at the Internal Revenue Service pushed back resolution of the management fee issue, and while progress on Part 23 was being made behind the scenes, the FAA failed to produce a notice of proposed rulemaking by the middle of December.
Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the Aviation International News monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with AIN for eight years. She joined AIN 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 HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the Show News staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for Business & Commercial Aviation and Overhaul & Maintenance 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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