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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Worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales jumped by 22.6 percent year-over-year in the first three months, topping $777 million, the Aircraft Electronics Association (AEA) reported yesterday. Sales were up by $143 million over the $634 million reported&nbsp;in first-quarter&nbsp;2022.
Forward-fit sales drove that leap, up 32.1 percent to nearly $468 million in the quarter, while retrofit sales also rose by 10.5 percent to $310 million. Forward-fit represented some 60.1 percent of sales in the quarter. The North American market dominated, accounting for 74.5 percent of sales in the quarter.
However, total sales in the first three months of the year ebbed by 2.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2022, “snapping a streak of 10 consecutive quarters of increasing [month-over-month] sales,” AEA noted.
"This quarterly report offers mixed results, as the industry posted a lower dollar amount in sales when compared to the fourth quarter of last year, while at the same time reporting an increase in sales of more than 22 percent compared to the first three months of 2022," said AEA president and CEO Mike Adamson. "Also of note, the industry garnered the largest forward-fit sales volume in the history of the report with more than $467 million in avionics sales to OEMs. It is only the second time that quarterly sales have topped $400 million in that category."

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