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.

Editor, AIN monthly magazine

Kerry Lynch

Toronto-based brokerage Aero Asset has seen preowned twin-engine rotorcraft sales slide throughout the market with 14 total retail sales and $34 million in transactions in the second quarter. Sales were down 58 percent and transaction value was&nbsp;off 78 percent from the same period in 2019, the firm reported today. &nbsp;

 


"Retail sales volume dropped a startling 60 percent from what was still a positive market in the first quarter," said Aero Asset sales director Emmanuel Dupuy. "We were starting to see the market soften towards the end of the first quarter, and clearly that trend amplified."

 


A drop in crude-oil prices and the Covid-19-induced economic slump are driving the drop in the rotor-wing market, Aero Asset said, adding that it continues to see volatility. The preowned supply remained relatively stable but the overall absorption rate—how long an aircraft is on the market—jumped 150 percent from a year ago, to four years. Meanwhile, the number of deals in the pipeline is down 40 percent from a year ago.

 


Quarter-over-quarter, the lightweight twin-engine preowned market supply decreased 10 percent but sales dropped 40 percent. The medium helicopter supply also fell 20 percent while retail sales plummeted 80 percent in the same period. No heavyweight twin engines were sold, but the available aircraft inventory jumped by 30 percent in the second quarter.

Aero Asset: Preowned Helicopter Market Plunges in Q2

Twin-engine rotorcraft sales dropped 58 percent and transaction value was off 78 percent in the second quarter, the brokerage reported.

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