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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FlightLevel Aviation—the lone service provider at Beverly Regional Airport (KBVY)—is constructing a 40,000-sq-ft hangar&nbsp;to address increasing demand for large-cabin business jet storage in the Boston area.
Designed to accommodate ultra-long-range business jets, the facility will also include&nbsp;up to 3,000 sq ft of build-to-suit office space, allowing aircraft owners, operators, and flight departments to design and configure the space based on their needs, from flight planning and crew areas to executive office space.
According to the company, the hangar—which will bring the location to 50,500 sq ft of aircraft storage—will support a range of tenants, from individual aircraft owners to larger flight departments, with the capability to accommodate multiple aircraft or a single operator establishing a dedicated base.
“This isn’t your typical box hangar,” said FlightLevel founder Peter Eichleay. “It’s an opportunity for the tenants to have private, partitioned, first-class hangar and office space to host a true base of operations for a corporate flight department or [Part] 135 operation, something that’s hard to find in the Boston area today.”
Slated for completion by June, the project will also include a private 12-car lot for tenants, passengers, and crew&nbsp;with&nbsp;direct airside access.

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