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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Business aircraft valuations are showing signs of rebound, with heavy jets increasing 13.8 percent in the last 12 months and light jets improving by nearly 25 percent, according to Amstat’s latest Aircraft Valuation Tool (AVT) report.
By the end of June, heavy jet values had jumped to $16.3 million, a gain that benefited from a steady climb over the past couple of months. While values have fluctuated in this category this year, the $16.3 million is still up 7.8 percent since the beginning of the year and more than $3 million up from the 12-month low point in October, when values skirted $13 million, the AVT report showed.
Light jets also have showed gains this year, up 4.8 percent since the beginning of the year, to a normalized valuation of $2.5 million. This category has climbed steadily since last August, when values were $2.2 million, and are up notably since June 2017, when they dipped below $2 million.
Medium and super-midsize aircraft values are on par with where they were a year ago. Medium jets have remained at roughly the $3 million level over the past 12 months, while super-mids came in a $6.7 million, near where they were a year ago but a dip from the $7.5 million value in April. Turboprops, meanwhile, are up 1 percent year-over-year, marking a rebound since a drop last fall. Year-to-date, values are up 7.8 percent.

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