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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Gulfstream Aerospace has secured Transport Canada validation for all four of the models that had been pending in recent years, following yesterday’s approval for the company’s flagship G700 and G800. That followed certification of both the G500 and G600 on February 15.
The latest round of approvals came under threat of retaliation from the White House, which on January 29 had threatened to “decertify” all in-production Bombardier aircraft until Transport Canada completed its validations of the Gulfstream models. Following that threat, Transport Canada was in close contact with its U.S. counterparts, and “our government is actively working on this situation. Canada’s aviation industry is safe and reliable. We will stand behind it.”
Gulfstream had applied for Transport Canada approval of the G500 and G600 six years ago, and then in 2024 for the G700 and G800. Gulfstream received U.S. certification for the G500 and G600 in 2018 and 2019. Both have received an EASA nod. The G700 followed in March 2024 with FAA certification and, within a year, had picked up 11 validations, including EU approval. But Canadian approval was not among them until yesterday. The G800, meanwhile, received its FAA and EASA approval last April concurrently.
Just ahead of the G700 and G800 validations yesterday, Gulfstream had said it was “optimistic that progress is being made” and reiterated that statement today.

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