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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NBAA is urging the U.S. Court of Appeals to repeal <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-06-29/court-permits-hto-curfews-tosses-operational-limits">mandatory curfews at East Hampton Airport (HTO)</a>, arguing they violate longstanding federal airport noise laws. The association joined the Friends of the East Hampton Airport and local operators in filing a brief on February 3, seeking to overturn a U.S. District Court decision that permitted the curfews to stand.

 


The town of East Hampton in April adopted a nighttime curfew, an extended curfew for “noisy” aircraft and limits on summertime operations of “noisy” aircraft to one flight weekly. Most business jets and helicopters qualify as “noisy.” Airport backers filed a lawsuit to repeal the new limits, and in late June U.S. District Court Judge Joanna Seybert deemed the once-a-week operational limit as “drastic” and repealed the restriction. But at the same time Seybert upheld the curfews.

 


NBAA and the Friends of the East Hampton Airport, however, argued that the District Court erred when it did not recognize the federal prohibitions against new noise restrictions in the Airport Noise and Capacity Act (ANCA) as mandatory. Instead, the court interpreted ANCA as “encouraging, but not requiring” compliance with the prohibition against new noise restrictions.

 


“The success of aviation—general aviation and commercial aviation—depends on having a uniform and consistent set of rules,” said Alex Gertsen, NBAA director of airports and ground infrastructure. “East Hampton asserts that ANCA is not applicable. However, that conflicts with the plain text of the statute and FAA regulations. ANCA is mandatory for all airports.”

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