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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The FAA is accepting applications for the fourth round of Aviation Workforce Development Grants for <a href="https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/362476">pilots</a> and <a href="https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/362475">maintenance technicians</a> through 11:59 EDT June 22. However, that grant portal (Grants.gov) is undergoing scheduled maintenance from June 20 to 22, and the agency is advising potential applicants to submit before June 20 to avoid delays or other issues. No deadline extensions will be granted from this outage, the agency added, noting that it will only accept electronic applications.
Congress initially established the workforce development grants in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 and later updated the programs in the subsequent reauthorization bill in 2024. Under those measures, the agency is authorized to award grants annually through fiscal year 2028. The agency said it was providing grants to academia and the aviation community “to help prepare a more inclusive talent pool of pilots and aviation maintenance technicians, to inspire and recruit the next generation of aviation professionals.”
Targeting the education and recruitment, the pilot and maintenance technician workforce grants are limited to $1,000,000 per year per entity. Entities eligible to apply for pilot grants include air carriers, Part 91K organizations, accredited educational institutions (vocational, higher education, high schools, or secondary schools), flight schools, labor organizations representing professional aircraft pilots, aviation-related non-profit organizations, or state/local governments. The maintenance grants also include educational institutions, non-profits, labor organizations, and state/local governments, but cover certified repair stations as well.
Eligible projects must involve a program or curriculum that provides&nbsp;students in high school, secondary school, or higher education institutions with meaningful aviation programming. In addition, the projects could involve apprenticeships, internships, scholarships, flight instruction curriculum, military transitions, or outreach to underrepresented populations.

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