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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Bombardier manufactures a variety of business aircraft models, provides engineering, and aircraft maintenance services.

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Nextant Aerospace, working with Bombardier and SpaceX, has obtained FAA supplemental type certification and is offering kits for the installation of Starlink in-flight connectivity on a range of Globals. The kits can be installed at the Bombardier service centers worldwide and Nextant, the engineering arm of Flexjet, will provide dedicated 24/7 support.
Kits are certified for the Bombardier Global Express, XRS, 6000, 6500, and 7500. The Starlink installation will provide passengers and crew with access to high-speed internet that approaches that of a terrestrial-based option, Nextant said. Starlink provides high-speed, low-latency internet globally using a constellation of more than 6,000 low-earth-orbit satellites. This provides seamless service, even over oceans.
Flexjet became one of the first to adopt Starlink, obtaining FAA approval for installation on Gulfstream G650s last September. Since then, Flexjet’s Nextant operation has expanded the STCs to cover the Globals, as well as the Gulfstream G550 and G450. Nextant further anticipates releasing STC kits for Bombardier Challengers by the end of the year.
“Several years ago, we recognized the fact that reliable, high-speed connectivity was the most significant in-flight experience that our industry still needed to solve for,” said Jay Heublein, president of Flexjet global maintenance and product support. “After over a year of research, it became clear to us that SpaceX, through Starlink, was going to finally be the solution our industry has been in search of for decades. Our belief in them early on was rewarded by the incredible experience our owners are now having with this technology.”

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