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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Kerry Lynch

Rodney Wysong, who served as vice president of&nbsp;Wysong Enterprises, died April 17 following a three-year battle with cancer.&nbsp;He was 35.&nbsp;Wysong had a lifelong passion for aviation, spending much time as a child with his father, Steve Wysong, in avionics shops and hangars. After joining his father’s firm in 1998 at the age of 17, he helped expand Wysong Enterprises from a small Blountville, Tenn. avionics shop specializing in electronic newsgathering helicopters into a&nbsp;maintenance, repair and overhaul shop with international reach.&nbsp;He recently was named one of the 40 most influential people under 40 in the Tri Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia. 

 


“Rodney was an amazing young man that had a ceaseless passion for his family and his business,” said Dallas Avionics vice president of sales Scott Davis, the son of the late Dallas Avionics founder Johnny Davis.&nbsp;“Rodney and I shared in common growing up in the aviation business around our dads. No matter how large the industry seems at times, this industry is still driven by small businesses and we are all family. The loss of Rodney is not only a loss to the Wysong family, but also to the entire industry.”

Rodney Wysong Dies at 35

Wysong spent his entire life around avionics shops and hangars with his father Steve Wysong, eventually joining Wysong Enterprises.

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