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). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Nine U.S. lawmakers are urging the Office of Management and Budget to quickly review a notice of proposed rulemaking that would overhaul small aircraft certification regulations. The lawmakers told OMB director Shaun Donovan in <a href="http://pompeo.house.gov/UploadedFiles/12-3-15_-_Letter_to_OMB_Part_23_NPRM.pdf" target="_blank">recent letters</a> that the release of a proposal to rewrite Part 23 is “a critical step necessary for the FAA to lead technical discussions at a milestone meeting of global aviation authorities on January 5 to 7, 2016….The FAA must move forward now or it risks losing its international leadership.”

 


The letters were signed by Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), Rick Larsen (D-Wash.), Sam Graves (R-Mo.), Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) and Rick Nolan (D-Minn.)&nbsp;and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska). The effort has bipartisan support, the lawmakers said, adding the rewrite will enable timelier introduction of safer technologies and eliminate the prescriptive approach to compliance in favor of a consensus approach. “The FAA has stated this effort will double real-world safety while cutting certification costs in half,” they added.

 


Congress set a December 15 deadline for the FAA to release a final rule, and the agency indicated that it plans to release the Part 23 rewrite NPRM by year-end.

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