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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Mayo Aviation founder Gwendolyn Lee Olson Mayo died November 20. Born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Mayo earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Minnesota and had served as a research chemist for the University of Colorado before launching Mayo Aviation in 1978.

 


Under her leadership, Mayo Aviation grew into established charter and management business that operates aircraft from turboprops to heavy jets and also has a certified repair station.&nbsp;Based at Centennial Airport in Denver, Mayo also has had a 36-year partnership with Flight for Life Colorado.

 


Mayo was the first woman chair of the National Air Transportation Association and won that organization’s William A. (Bill) Ong Memorial Award in 1978. She was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame and was recognized with NBAA’s Silk Scarf Award.

 


Mayo also was known as a talented seamstress and embroiderer, with some of her embroidery displayed in the Denver Museum of Natural History.

Mayo Aviation Founder Gwen Mayo Dies

Mayo earned a PhD in organic chemistry and was was research chemist before establishing Mayo Aviation in 1978.

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