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

Available inventory of preowned business jets this month inched upward from June but is still down by 39 percent from a year ago, to 660&nbsp;aircraft.&nbsp;Availability is up 5 percent from the 628 preowned business jets for sale in June, but dramatically down from the 1,089 business jets that were on the market in July 2021, according to market analyst Jefferies.

 


Citing Amstat data, Jefferies&nbsp;noted the currently available market represents 2.6 percent of the total fleet. Looking at younger jets—those less than seven years—inventories dropped 37 percent year-over-year, while prices jumped by 23 percent.

 


Midsize jets have led the decline in available inventory, down 43 percent, followed by heavy jets at 40 percent, and light jets at 37 percent.

 


The number of Bombardier preowned jets for sale has dropped by 47 percent year-over-year to 46, with available Globals down 64 percent, Learjets by&nbsp;33 percent, and Challengers by 26 percent. No Global 7500s are currently on the market.

 


Gulfstream inventories, meanwhile, shrunk 43 percent&nbsp;to 35 units, representing just 1.8 percent of the overall fleet produced by the Savannah, Georgia airframer, with declines in G550s, G280s, and G450s available for sale. The company has produced 12 of what will be its new flagship, the G700, which Jefferies said implies six are customer aircraft with the six test articles in inventory.

 


Closely following the trends are&nbsp;Dassault inventories, which&nbsp;are down 41 percent with only 10 available aircraft. The number of preowned Embraer aircraft for sale&nbsp;has declined 28 percent to 26 units, and Cessna Citations are down 26 percent to 75 available.

Jefferies: Midsize Bizjets Lead Continued Inventory Drop

Available inventory of preowned business jets are down by 39 percent from a year ago with midsize jets leading the decline.

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