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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Quiet Technology Aerospace (QTA) was selected to provide its titanium thrust reversers and carbon-fiber inlet cowls upgrades for AB Jets’ Bombardier Challenger 3500 fleet. AB Jets, a Memphis, Tennessee-based air charter operator, recently took delivery of the first of three Challenger 3500s that will become a core part of its operations. The model is powered by a pair of Honeywell HTF7350 turbofans.
Being incorporated immediately upon delivery, the QTA upgrades are designed to protect against corrosion, ensuring long-term reliability and minimizing future maintenance events on the aircraft.
Under QTA’s supplemental type certificate, the upgrade replaces aluminum skins of the thrust reverser with a permanent titanium structure that exactly replicates the original exit area and inner mold line, so it doesn’t impact engine performance. QTA also replaces the inner aluminum barrel of the inlet cowls with a carbon-graphite inner barrel that will not corrode.
QTA noted that while many companies adopt these upgrades later in their aircraft cycle, AB Jets is proactively incorporating them.

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