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

George Neal, a long-time de Havilland Aircraft of Canada test pilot, has set a new aviation record, qualifying as the oldest active, licensed pilot on Earth.&nbsp;Neal is entering the Guinness Book of World Records for remaining a pilot at 96 years and 194 days as of his qualifying flight on June 2 this year. Neal has held a Canadian pilot certificate since 1936, amassing more than 15,000 hours on 150 aircraft types.

 


Many of those hours came while he was a test pilot for de Havilland Canada.&nbsp;Joining the company in 1947, he was pilot-in-command for the first flights of the DHC-3 Otter, CS2F Tracker and DHC-4 Caribou, and he served as part of the flight-test teams for the DHC–1 Chipmunk, DHC-2 Beaver, DHC-6 Twin Otter, DHC-5 Buffalo, Dash 7 and Dash 8.

 


Tom Appleton, chairman of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame and former de Havilland Canada/Bombardier executive, submitted the Guinness record application. “George’s experience is unparalleled in the world of aviation,’’ Appleton said. “He is as tireless as he is professional, and we are proud of his airborne exploits, which seem to go on indefinitely.”&nbsp;

George Neal Enters Guinness Record Book as Oldest Pilot

Neal remains a pilot at 96 years old, amassing thousands of hours as a former test pilot for de Havilland Canada.

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