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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Eytan Saletsky, director of system solutions at Astronautics, is leading the new business unit. He joined the company in February 2023 and has more than 35 years of integrated systems program experience, including more than 20 years at CMC Electronics.
Creation of the business line comes as Astronautics is completing two system solutions programs and was recently named a key supplier on a third. These include upgrading 12 Erickson S-65 Air Crane cockpits with custom-tailored avionics to support their crane and firefighting missions. The upgrade includes Astronautics’ Badger Pro+ Gen 2.0 smart 6-by-8-inch multifunction displays, engine data concentrator unit, and AeroSync Mission connectivity module.
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“Given the steady increase in our orderbook of systems programs, now is the right time to formalize a system solutions unit and bring Astronautics back into the systems business,” said Astronautics president Robert Atac. “We are expanding on our pedigree of successful systems integration programs that modernized Brazilian, Saudi, and Peruvian C-130/L-100 military transport aircraft with a blend of Astronautics and supplier avionics.”

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