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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NBAA’s annual Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition&nbsp;(BACE), which has rotated locations throughout its history, is landing in Las Vegas for at least the next four years and possibly further into the future. Chris Strong, senior v-p for events at NBAA, told AIN that the move comes as the tradeshow industry as a whole is trending toward optimizing events in a single location.
“We have a history of having shows in consistent places,” Strong noted. Many of its conferences will be held in a given year and its regional forums return to the same locations. Even BACE, which previously had many more locations to draw upon, has in its more recent history toggled between Orlando, Florida, and Las Vegas.
Noting the trends of stationing at one location, “we decided with what’s going on in Las Vegas—with the new hall, ramp space—that we would do a trial to be in Las Vegas for four years,” Strong said.
This was a decision, he stressed, that was made following conversations with exhibitors, attendees, and the board of directors. The reaction to the trial has been “largely positive,” Strong said, noting the track record NBAA already has had with the Nevada city. “Vegas is international. It’s the global destination for a global show and it’s also a place where high-net-worth individuals tend to be very comfortable gathering.”
He further said that in choosing a single location, “Las Vegas offers us the opportunity for the kind of show that we want to put on. We’re going to optimize the entire experience in terms of planning. These are things that have to be planned years and years out.”
However, Strong also stressed the importance that Orlando has played in the history of NBAA’s convention, saying NBAA (Booth 1289) has “many friends” in the central Florida city. “Aviation and Florida are synonymous. Florida is one of the great aviation homes,” he said and added the static hosts beginning with Showalter Flying Service and Atlantic Aviation have been a great home for the static display. “They have been sensational partners.”
As for this year’s convention, Strong was encouraged by how it has shaped up leading into the event. The static space sold out a few weeks ago and inside, the number of exhibitors has topped 800, which he said is on par with where the show was in 2018, the last time it was held in Orlando. Attendance was trending close to pre-pandemic numbers also leading into the show, but Strong said that could increase as people register throughout the show.
As far as next year, NBAA does not book until the current year’s show closes, but hotel reservations are already starting at a strong pace, he said,&nbsp; “which is kind of what we anticipated. That’s our best barometer.”

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