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). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Kerry Lynch

Daher's&nbsp;Kodiak Aircraft unit in Sandpoint, Idaho,&nbsp;donated use of a brand-new—and not-yet-painted—Kodiak 100 Series II turboprop single, as well as a company pilot, last week to deliver 240 ventilators to Sacramento,&nbsp;California, for the Department of Public Health’s Emergency Preparedness Office. The ventilators were manufactured by Idaho-based&nbsp;Percussionaire.&nbsp;

 


“Daher has the same culture of helping people as Percussionaire, and we recognized the importance of making the airlift resources available for this life-saving equipment,” said Nicolas Chabbert, senior v-p of the Daher Aircraft division.

 


“We needed to get ventilators to California as quickly as possible, and we&nbsp;found that using Daher aircraft would be the quickest possible way,” added Percussionaire president and CEO Mark Baillie.

 


Percussionaire adapted its TXP 5 high-frequency percussive ventilator system for hospital use with Covid-19 patients. The technology previously had been used for portable units during the Desert Storm Gulf War, according to Daher.

Newly Minted Kodiak Carries Ventilators to California

Kodiak Aircraft donated use of a new Kodiak 100 Series II turboprop single and pilot time to transport 240 ventilators to Sacramento, California.

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