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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Cirrus Aircraft promoted two key executives to senior level roles as the company readies for certification and deliveries of its single-engine Vision SF50 jet. Todd Simmons, who had been executive vice president and chief customer officer, was named president of customer experience. Pat Waddick, who was executive vice president and COO, is now president of innovation and operations. Both report to co-founder and CEO Dale Klapmeier.

 


Simmons will direct all customer-related activities, including sales, marketing, delivery, service and support, flight training and flight operations. He also will oversee the opening of the company’s new <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-05-06/cirrus-aircraft-selects-knoxville-vision-customer-center">Vision Center in Knoxville, Tenn.</a>, where he will be based. “With first customer deliveries of the Vision Jet just ahead, we are taking advantage of this inflection point to expand the depth and breadth of our customer organization,” Simmons said.

 


Waddick, who will lead operations from the Cirrus Duluth, Minn. headquarters, will steer research and development, engineering, program management, manufacturing operations, global supply chain and quality.&nbsp;

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