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.

Editor, AIN monthly magazine

Kerry Lynch

U.K.-based aviation services company Gama Aviation has assembled a team of employees to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds to bring clean water to a hospital nearby in Tanzania. The climb team, comprising 19 Gama Aviation employees along with five others, will launch on what is expected to be about a 10-day expedition on February 14.

 


The team was selected from throughout the company internationally, including pilots, operations managers, legal counsel and non-executive directors, among many others. With the exception of the team leaders, the team primarily includes first-time Kilimanjaro climbers. The team has been training over the past several months, and some members have accomplished smaller climbs in preparation.

 


Gama Aviation is funding the expedition as it raises money to put in a new water infrastructure for Kiomboi hospital in Tanzania. Gama Aviation has set a goal of raising £50,000 (close to $71,000), and so far has reached about half that mark. At the hospital, Gama Aviation said, “There is only enough water for one hour a day…. Because of the lack of water, heavily pregnant women have to collect dirty water from the unclean river to bring to the hospital to use for the birth of their own child. After they have given birth, they then have to walk back to the river to wash." The hospital handles about 8,000 births a year. “The mortality rate and severe infection rate is high.” Gama Aviation is working with WaterAid to provide toilets, showers, baths, hand washing sinks and hygiene education.

 


Gama Aviation will continue <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/teams/gamakiliclimb">to accept donations</a> through about mid-March.&nbsp;

Gama Aviation Climbing To New Heights for Clean Water

Gama Aviation employees to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds to put in new water infrastructure for Kiomboi hospital in Tanzania.

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