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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Kerry Lynch

GAMA has increased&nbsp;membership to more than 120 as it continues to fill out its associate category with companies jumping into the autonomous, electric, and/or hybrid markets. Seven more companies recently joined the organization, six of which are associate members.

 


In the full-membership category, Seattle-based Raisbeck Engineering joined GAMA’s membership roll. Recently acquired by private equity firm Acorn Growth Companies, Raisbeck produces performance-enhancement upgrades for commercial and general aviation aircraft.

 


New associate members included Los Angeles-based electric aircraft developer Ampaire; Robotic Skies, an Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm seeking to develop a network of repair stations focused on emerging unmanned aviation systems and urban mobility; Bruchsal, Germany-based Volocopter, one of the earliest developers of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft; and ZeroAvia of Hollister, California, which is developing hybrid-electric propulsion technologies. Other new associate members are Aviage, a Shanghai-based joint venture between GE and AVIC focused on the developing avionics and aircraft systems for the emerging aviation mobility market, and Hayward, California-based SkyRyse, which is developing autonomous helicopter technologies.

 


“We are proud to have a long established and highly respected company like Raisbeck Engineering join as a full-member company,” said GAMA president and CEO Pete Bunce. “We’re also excited to welcome six companies to our associate membership, a category we created in 2015 to represent companies engaged in the rapidly growing and revolutionary sector of general aviation vehicle design and maintenance.”

GAMA Membership Continues Expansion 

The associate member category is attracting a range of startups and other companies engaged in hybrid, electric, or autonomous systems.

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