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, along with nearly a dozen local aviation companies, is appealing to the U.S. FAA to find that East Hampton, New York, diverted airport revenue to pay for legal fees in violation with grant obligations. The organizations filed the appeal this week, asking the agency to reconsider its earlier decision against enforcement on the use of East Hampton Airport (HTO) funds, which they said went to pay for the town’s unsuccessful legal effort to uphold a series of restrictions at the airport.

 


An FAA decision against enforcement, NBAA said, “is contrary to agency precedent, is bad policy, and is plainly at odds with congressional instructions.”

 


“There should be no doubt that the airport dollars spent by the town in litigation seeking to perpetuate the illegal restrictions constituted an improper use of airport revenue,” NBAA and the others wrote in the appeal. “The town explicitly adopted an anti-airport agenda, declined to utilize FAA administrative procedures, and represented to its taxpayers that—even though litigation would almost inevitably result from its campaign—the consequences would be cost- and risk-free.”

 


The appeal further noted that while this effort is ongoing, “the airport has been starved of needed improvements that could have been funded with those diverted funds. The town now should be required to make HTO whole.” It also argues that the FAA is congressionally compelled to take action, citing a requirement to apply airport funds for the benefit of the airport. “The town had an explicit anti-airport and bad-faith agenda...The FAA should now require their reimbursement, with statutory interest.”

 


“While East Hampton apparently has spent millions of dollars over the past several years in its attempts to impose access restrictions that the federal courts concluded violated federal requirements, the FAA decision puts at risk far more than the dollars currently at stake at HTO,” added NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen. It could jeopardize the national system of airports by providing airport sponsors an option of using airport revenues to restrict or close airports, he said.

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