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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&nbsp;Despite recent legal setbacks, NBAA and local airport advocates are continuing their fight to preserve the future of California's Santa Monica Municipal Airport (SMO), filing separate legal actions in the U.S. Court of Appeals and District Court for the District of Columbia.

 


The appeals court<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2018-06-14/nbaa-vows-continue-fight-smo"> in June denied a lawsuit</a> filed by NBAA and airport stakeholders that sought to overturn a January 2017 settlement agreement between the FAA and the city of Santa Monica that paved the way for the city to shorten the airport runway and to ultimately close SMO after 2028. The case was rejected on procedural grounds, finding the settlement agreement was not a “final agency action” reviewable by the court.

 


Noting the court did not evaluate the petition on its substance, the groups filed an <a href="https://www.nbaa.org/ops/airports/smo/20180724-en-banc-petition-as-filed-smo.pdf">en banc petition</a> requesting a rehearing. The en banc petition argues that “final agency” orders should be given a broad definition. “If allowed to stand, [the panel’s decision] demarks a path by which agencies may enter final orders without them being subject to Circuit review, defying the intent of Congress and well-established precedent that agency decision-making is presumptively reviewable,” NBAA and the other SMO advocates told the court.

 


Separately, NBAA and the other SMO groups last week<a href="https://www.nbaa.org/ops/airports/smo/20180724-district-court-complaint-as-filed-smo.pdf"> filed a complaint</a> in district court seeking a determination that the FAA acted beyond its jurisdiction in the settlement agreement.

 


The district court filing stresses that the FAA failed to follow established procedures when it concluded that continued operations of SMO are not “necessary to protect or advance the civil aviation interests of the United States.” This position, NBAA believes, contradicts the FAA’s mission.

 


“Not only will NBAA continue fighting to preserve this vital Southern California airport, but we also feel we have a duty to stand up when we believe the FAA has exceeded its authority, and to ensure the court recognizes that the FAA and other government agencies cannot be shielded from judicial review,” NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen said.

 


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