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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Fractional ownership provider Jetfly Aviation introduced its first PC-12 NGX into its fleet, in addition to taking delivery of a fifth PC-24. With the latest additions, Jetfly has 47 Pilatus aircraft, the largest such fleet in Europe.

 


Unveiled during NBAA-BACE 2019, the PC-12 NGX is equipped with an updated Pratt &amp; Whitney PT6E-67XP engine that includes a full authority digital engine control, marking a first for business turboprops. In addition, the aircraft includes a fully integrated autothrottle option and features a new passenger cabin that draws from the PC-24 twinjet.

 


“When Pilatus presented the upgraded features of the next generation of PC-12s to us last year, we were on board immediately,” said Jetfly general manager Maxime Bouchard. “The new cabin with its larger windows and full authority digital engine control system—to name but a few improvements—have added significantly to a product that is already extremely popular.”

 


Also an early operator of the PC-24 light jet, Jetfly has accrued more than 2,400 hours thus far on the four already in its fleet. “The handover of our fifth PC-24 within two years marks the end of a successful phase of expansion,” said Jetfly CEO Cédric Lescop. “We are proud that our PC-24 fractional ownership program has already attracted no fewer than 50 part-owners.” Jetfly anticipates adding a sixth PC-24 toward the end of the year.

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