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 European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has granted approval for Bombardier’s newest members of the Global family—the Global 5500 and 6500—clearing the way for the ultra-long-range models to be registered in an EU country.&nbsp;European validation follows <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-09-24/bombardiers-newest-globals-get-transport-canada-ok">Transport Canada certification</a> last month and <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-10-01/bombardiers-global-6500-enters-service">entry-into-service of the first Global 6500</a> on September 30. That first aircraft was leased back to Bombardier, which will display it next week during NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas.

 


“Obtaining type certification from [EASA] marks one of the final chapters in our very successful development program, and this achievement is a direct result of the commitment to excellence of the highly-skilled employees who worked on the program and our solid collaboration with our suppliers,” said Michel Ouellette, senior v-p of program management and engineering for Bombardier Aviation.

 


EASA previously had certified the Global’s Pearl 15 powerplants—the first in a new engine family at Rolls-Royce—and Transport Canada followed with similar approval last month, right before granting a type certificate for the aircraft. U.S. FAA validation is also anticipated in the coming weeks.

 


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