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

R. Randall Padfield, who spent 22 years as an editor with AIN Publications, was selected by the Helicopter Association International as the 2016 winner of the Lightspeed Aviation Excellence in Communications Award. Part of HAI’s Salute to Excellence award program, the Excellence in Communications Award will be presented during HAI’s Heli-Expo, Feb. 29-March 3, in Louisville, Ky.&nbsp;

 


Padfield retired from AIN at the end of last year as editor-in-chief and COO. While with AIN, he had overall responsibility for the editorial content of Aviation International News and Business Jet Traveler magazines. He has authored four books on aviation and was the 1998 winner of NBAA’s Gold Wing aviation journalism award.

 


Before joining AIN, he wrote articles for several other aviation publications and worked full-time as a pilot. An airline transport-rated pilot in helicopters and airplanes, Padfield has logged more than 9,000 hours of flight time. Padfield trained and flew missions as a U.S. Air Force HH-3E rescue pilot, flew Sikorsky S-61s, Bell 212s and Aerospatiale AS 332Ls for Helikopter Service of Norway and served as a pilot with Trump Air of New Jersey.

 


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HAI To Honor Padfield for Excellence in Communications

An editor with AIN for 22 years, Padfield has written four aviation books and logged more than 9,000 hours.

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