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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The House Appropriations Committee tomorrow is set to consider a Fiscal Year 2019 transportation budget that will tighten the FAA’s budgetary resources overall but include some funding for certain airports affected by security protocols surrounding President Donald Trump’s travel to his residences.

 


The legislation provides $17.7 billion in total budgetary resources for the FAA, which appropriators say is $310 million below the FY2018-approved level. However, the FAA’s operations account would receive a $199 million boost under the bill, and the baseline airport grants-in-aids program and facilities and equipment accounts would remain steady.

 


The FAA’s Air Traffic Organization would receive a $147 million bump over 2018 levels, funding for 14,500 air traffic controllers, 7,400 safety inspectors, and operational support personnel. Also, the contract tower program would receive $168 million, providing funding to bring additional towers into the system.

 


Bill language would direct the FAA to make at least $3.5 million available to reimburse “airport sponsors that do not provide gateway operations and business located at those airports during a temporary flight restriction for any residence of the President that is designated to be secured by the U.S. Secret Service.”

 


The Washington insider publication Politico noted that this appears to target at least three airports near Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, that are severely hampered during Trump’s visits.

 


Other bill language would direct the FAA to prioritize the development of non-destructive inspection to facilitate use of additive manufacturing materials and to work with international regulators on improving and streamlining certification and validation procedures.

 


The budget would include $56 million for unmanned aircraft system integration and calls for a report by the end of September on the FAA’s UAS traffic management research.

 


Research, engineering, and development funding would be down nearly $9 million under the bill, with more than $5 million of that coming from the unleaded aviation gasoline initiative. The administration had requested no funding for this, but House lawmakers included $1.9 million to wrap up test and certification activities.&nbsp;The program received $7 million in 2018.

 


As in past years, the bill language includes privacy protections from real-time flight-tracking information and would maintain the weight limitations at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.

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