A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Alliance for Aviation Across America, a Washington, D.C.-based general aviation advocacy organization, has released an economic impact study detailing general aviation’s value across the nation. Using an interactive map on the association’s Web site (<a href="http://www.aviationacrossamerica.org/" target="_blank">www.aviationacrossamerica.org</a>), visitors to the site can scroll from state to state and view key statistics compiled over the past year about aviation-related jobs, airports and flight schools. As one of the group’s main goals is to enable grass roots aviation users to communicate their needs to elected officials, the map is also overlaid with congressional districts. 
With a current membership of more than 4,500 pilots, aircraft owners, airport managers, elected officials, and local chambers of commerce, as well as most of the alphabet organizations including NBAA, AOPA, the Helicopter Association International&nbsp; and the National Association of State Aviation Officials, the donation-funded and mainly volunteer-staffed coalition has been outspoken against proposed industry-threatening legislation such as user fees and the 
<link ain-and-ainalerts>Large Aircraft Security Program. 
The organization has been busy quantifying the necessity of general aviation to many rural communities and small businesses in response to the negative perception of the industry. It recently brought together more than 70 mayors and elected officials from cities and towns across the country to sign a letter to President Obama conveying the importance of general aviation to their constituencies, in hopes that it will be on his mind when the subject comes up during future transportation legislation.

Map outlines value of general aviation

Alliance for Aviation Across America, a Washington, D.C.-based general aviation advocacy organization, has released an economic impact study detailing gene

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