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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Sky Harbour, the builder and operator of turnkey luxury private aircraft hangars, announced additional locations in California and New Jersey.
On the West Coast, Sky Harbour has purchased CloudNine, a 120,000-sq-ft hangar and office complex at Southern California’s Camarillo Airport, along with Sky 805, a holder of FBO operator rights on the field, for $31 million.
Sky Harbour will rebrand the CloudNine facility, turning it into its fifth operational hangar complex, joining Sugar Land, Texas (KSGR); Nashville (KBNA); Miami (KOPF); and fellow California location San Jose (KSJC). Meanwhile, Sky 805 will continue to operate the Channel Islands Aviation FBO and related operations led by current general manager Nick Martino.
"The Los Angeles Metro is one of the nation's top business aviation markets," explained Sky Harbour chairman and CEO Tal Keinan. "More specifically, Camarillo Airport is positioned on the vital business aviation corridor between Calabasas and Montecito, which we believe is set to benefit from a readily foreseeable long-term surge in home-basing demand."
At New Jersey’s Trenton-Mercer Airport (KTTN), the company has signed a lease with Mercer County to build a new hangar complex. When completed by late 2027, it will add 130,000 sq ft of aircraft shelter in the tight Northeast hangar market.&nbsp;Construction is expected to begin in mid-2026.
The New Jersey location will bolster the company’s planned network for the region, which includes already announced projects at New York’s Stewart International (KSWF) and Hudson Valley Regional (KPOU) airports, as well as Bradley International Airport (KBDL) in Connecticut.
"Trenton-Mercer serves southern New Jersey, and the New York and Philadephia metro markets," added Keinan. "The Sky Harbour campus will be another best-in-class facility with outstanding operational leadership driving uncompromising standards for business aviation safety and efficiency."

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