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 FAA’s Fiscal Year 2019 budget took a step forward yesterday with the U.S. Senate passage of a “minibus” appropriations package, H.R.6147, by a 92-6 vote. It combines four separate appropriations bills, including the transportation, housing, and urban development package that would provide $17.7 billion in budgetary resources for the FAA in Fiscal Year 2019, mirroring funding set aside for the agency in the House proposal.

 


Several provisions of the FAA portion are of interest to the business and general aviation community, such as possible reimbursements for certain airports and aviation businesses affected by presidential temporary flight restrictions, as well as a directive for the FAA to use existing resources to fund its support of major aviation events. The bill further provides $1 billion for Next-Gen programs, $168 million for contract towers, and a $750 million set aside for airport improvements.

 


NATA praised the bill’s passage, pointing to a number of provisions the association supported, including language seeking to improve Part 135 incident reporting data, support for alternative fuels research, and a push for the FAA to follow through on recommendations of the FAA’s Regulatory Consistency Aviation Rulemaking Committee.

 


“The hard work shown by congressional appropriators in passing this bill validates the importance of continued collaboration between the FAA and the general aviation community,” said NATA president Martin Hiller.

 


The bill must still be hashed out with the House, which has not yet acted on its version of the transportation appropriations bill. Congress has until September 30 to pass the FY19 budget or an extension of the current budget.

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