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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FAA reauthorization returns to the House after the Senate today approved a comprehensive 18-month bill&nbsp;by a 95-3 vote. Passage followed two weeks of debate that had been bogged down by the more than 330 amendments filed for consideration and the threat of a filibuster. The Senate yesterday <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2016-04-18/senate-hoping-wrap-consideration-faa-bill">approved a cloture motion</a> to cut off debate and clear the way for final passage.

 


The bill had received wide support from general aviation groups for its certification and third-class medical reforms, among many other provisions. But also the groups supported the Senate’s decision to leave out the controversial House proposal for an independent ATC organization. “We applaud this bipartisan step toward implementing a smart, targeted approach to funding the FAA’s efforts to modernize what is already the world's safest ATC system, without going down the dangerous path of turning our ATC system over to a private board," said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen.

 


NATA president and CEO Tom Hendricks, agreed, saying, “We hope this legislation will serve as the impetus for the House to cease efforts to create an air traffic control corporation and instead move ahead with other provisions of the House committee-passed legislation that strongly resemble the bill approved today by the Senate."

 


“This is a solid bill for general aviation,” added AOPA President Mark Baker. “The third-class medical reform language goes far beyond the AOPA-EAA 2012 petition and means that hundreds of thousands of pilots will never need another FAA medical exam. Add to that the fact that there are no user fees for general aviation in this bill and there are provisions to continue research into unleaded fuels and increase grants for improvements to GA airports, and it’s all good news for GA.”

 


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