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

President Trump today officially appointed former NBAA COO Chris Rocheleau as the acting head of the FAA.&nbsp;The announcement comes less than 24 hours after a PSA-operated American <a href="https://backend.ainonline.com/aviation-news/general-aviation/2025-01-30/us-army-helicopter-american-airlines-flight-collide">Airlines CRJ700 regional airliner collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter</a> and crashed into the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
For the past 10 days, the administration and FAA had declined to tell press outlets who was running the aviation agency on a daily basis. According to multiple sources,&nbsp;Rocheleau was previously tapped as FAA deputy administrator on or around January 20, although even that position was not formally announced by either the FAA or White House.
Rocheleau had spent almost all of the prior 17 years with the FAA in various roles, rising to the position of deputy associate administrator for aviation safety before joining NBAA in 2022. He also served as FAA deputy assistant administrator for policy, international affairs, and environment and chief of staff, among others.
Rocheleau joined the FAA in 1996 but left for a nearly four-year stint in 2002 to serve as a senior policy advisor during the early days of the then-nascent Transportation Security Administration. He also spent 10 years in the U.S. Air Force.

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Trump Appoints Chris Rocheleau as Acting FAA Administrator

Rocheleau was formerly COO of NBAA

President Trump on Thursday said that he had appointed former NBAA COO Chris Rocheleau as the acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Trump Appoints Chris Rocheleau Acting FAA Administrator

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