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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Symmetry Crew Solutions, founded by two career pilots in 2025, is providing staffing for Gulfstream operations, and are exhibiting for the first time at NBAA-BACE 2026. &nbsp;
With their experience, founders Brett Rundle and Grady Montgomery have gained firsthand perspective on challenges confronting corporate flight departments and are striving to address the issues of inconsistent crew quality, unfamiliarity with advanced avionics, and lack of continuity between missions. To solve this, they are assembling a team of experienced Gulfstream G800, 700, 600, and 500 contract pilots.
The Savannah, Georgia-based firm is focused on building long-term relationships with operators, enabling them to request specific crew members already familiar with their aircraft and operations.&nbsp;Symmetry can tailor support for executive travel, owner-flown operations, flight-department augmentation, delivery and ferry flights, and new aircraft acceptance.
A former NBAA Corporate Aviation Management Committee member, Rundle spent more than 25 years at Gulfstream Aerospace, including more than 20 as chief demonstration pilot. Holding multiple world city-pair speed records, he is a factory master entry-into-service pilot for Gulfstream deliveries (G500/600/700/800) and is type-rated on eight Gulfstream models.
Montgomery has served as a corporate aviator since 1998 and has been a transition-training captain on the G700/800. He is the former chief pilot for Malphrus International and founder of Part 135 charter Airstream Aviation.

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Symmetry Crew Solutions is drawing on a group of experienced Gulfstream pilots to offer flight departments more consistency.

Symmetry Aims To Lift Standards for Gulfstream Pilots

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NBAA-BACE 2026

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