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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Japanese conglomerate Mitsui &amp; Co. signed an agreement with Quest Aircraft parent company Setouchi Holdings to acquire an equity stake in the Sandpoint, Idaho-based manufacturer of the Kodiak single-turboprop aircraft. Under the agreement, which was finalized January 13, Mitsui is receiving a 12.5-percent holding of Quest for a $10 million investment, according to Mitsui. The investment comes nearly a year after <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-02-17/japanese-company-setouchi-buys-quest-aircraft">Setouchi Holdings bought Quest Aircraft</a>, furthering a relationship that began when Setouchi became a Quest dealer.

 


As with Setouchi, Quest hopes to leverage Mitsui’s industry relationships to extend its global reach. “The agreement between Setouchi Holdings and Mitsui will help us further expand Quest’s market globally for the Kodiak,” said Quest Aircraft CEO Sam Hill. “They, like Setouchi, are a well respected company with worldwide business interests in a variety of market segments.”

 


Mitsui is involved in manufacturing, infrastructure, services, financing and/or marketing of a number of industries, including iron/steel, chemicals, minerals infrastructure projects, transportation systems, energy, food resources/products and IT, among others.

 


“Mitsui will, with its capital participation in Quest, use its global networks to support the expansion of sales channels for the Kodiak 100 in previously uncultivated markets with the potential for demand growth and work to further enhance Quest's corporate value,” Mitsui said in a statement.

 


“The Kodiak is well suited to a wide variety of missions and we want to further build on our global market penetration,” Hill said. Quest recently added a <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2016-01-12/quest-appoints-chilean-kodiak-dealer">dealer in Chile</a> and is working on a number of new international certifications for the aircraft in addition to the 21 approvals it has already obtained.&nbsp;The company also has been expanding its facilities. It began construction this fall of a 75,000-sq-ft expansion of its Sandpoint facilities that will effectively double its production space. The expansion will help Quest continue to increase production of the Kodiak as demand for the aircraft continues to increase, Hill said.

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