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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Nikita “Nips” Offenberg, 91, who was among the earlier corporate pilots and had a career that spanned nearly four decades, died on April 28 in St. Peterburg, Florida. Born May 18, 1929, in New York City to parents Anastasia (Hartwig-Gluhareff) and Sergei Offenberg, he was the stepson of Michael Gluhareff, one of the key Russian aeronautical engineers who worked with Igor Sikorsky in the development of flying boats and rotorcraft.

 


Learning to fly at Bridgeport Flying Service in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1947, Offenberg earned his commercial certificate in 1951 and became a pilot flying an L-18 Lockheed Lodestar for Kollsman Instrument. He became an FAA flight instructor and examiner and in 1956 joined the US Industries corporate flight department in White Plains, New York. There, he obtained an airline transport pilot certificate and became type rated on the Douglas DC-3 and Convair 440. He flew for Radio Corp. of America (RCA) and ultimately joined Great Lakes Carbon&nbsp;(GLC) in 1960.

 


Offenberg flew for GLC for 25 years, retiring in 1985 as chief pilot. Based at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, he flew a Convair-580 and Lockheed JetStar all over the world.

 


He is survived by his wife of 74 years, Lillian, and children Sandra Donaldson (Dennis), Laura Offenberg Dague (Arthur), and Glenn Offenberg. A memorial service is planned for June 20 in Stratford.

Obituary: 'Nips' Offenberg Was Early Corporate Pilot

Nips Offenberg, who died April 28, began a flying career in 1951 with Kollsman but later spent 25  years flying for Great Lakes Carbon Corp..

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