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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Gulfstream Aerospace officially opened its $130 million service center yesterday at Arizona’s Mesa Gateway Airport (KIWA). A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the company’s newest facility in its customer service support network was attended by company leaders, employees, and local officials.
The airframer <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-11-09/gulfstream-open-mesa-service-center-arizona">announced</a> the start of the 225,000-sq-ft facility in 2021 and the following year opened an interim service facility in the SkyBridge development on the opposite (west) side of the field from where the now-opened center was slated to be built. In October 2022, it expanded that existing facility—known as the Mesa west campus—which will be retained and can now accommodate up to 10 large and midsize aircraft.
The newly-opened Mesa service center builds on that capacity to handle up to 13 more large-cabin jets simultaneously with the ability to support maintenance and avionics services, inspections, and drop-in work.
Designed to support the OEM’s goal of sustainability, the facility incorporates recycled, regional, and lower-emission materials, as well as reduced power and water consumption technologies. It is expected to receive LEED Silver sustainability certification later this year. The Mesa campus also includes a fuel farm with a 30,000-gallon tank dedicated to storing sustainable aviation fuel.
“The opening of Gulfstream’s new Mesa Service Center aligns with our strategic vision to provide the industry’s most modern service network, sustainably designed to serve our customers where and when they need us,” said company president Mark Burns. “Thanks to the investments we’ve made in workforce development and on-the-job training, our Mesa team is well prepared to offer customers based in the Western United States and those traveling through the region the same high-quality service and safety measures they have experienced across our worldwide network.”

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