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.

Editor, AIN monthly magazine

Kerry Lynch

The preowned business jet market tightened throughout the first half of the year and by June had dipped to the lowest percentage of aircraft for sale, 9.1 percent, since the beginning of the “Great Recession,” according to JetNet’s most recent market update covering the first half of the year.

 


In June, 1,966 preowned business jets were for sale globally, compared with 2,301 a year earlier. This marked a 1.7 percentage drop in the number of preowned aircraft available for sale, which was at 10.8 percent by the midpoint of 2017.

 


Available preowned turboprops are even more scarce, with 6.6 percent of the in-service fleet available for sale in June. This compares with 7.6 percent a year earlier. Helicopters showed similar trends: 5.8 percent of in-service turbine helicopters were available in June, compared with 6.7 percent a year earlier; and 5.4 percent of piston helicopters were on the market in June versus 5.6 percent a year earlier.

 


During the first six months, 1,344 business jets exchanged hands, a 0.2 percent increase from the same period in 2017. Average days on market dropped by 26 to 297 for business jets. Turboprop sales, however, took 13 days longer on average, at 307. In all, 651 business turboprops were sold in the first half of the year, relatively flat with the year before.

JetNet: Used Market Tightens with Inventory Lows

The percentage of available business jets dropped to 9.1 percent in June, the lowest point since the beginning of the Great Recession.

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