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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Embraer finished off the second quarter with a record backlog. Among the major business jet manufacturers, the Brazilian airframer is unique in that it plays in both the commercial and private aviation markets.
On the commercial side, it reported an eight-year-record backlog of $13.1 billion for its E-Jet family. Meanwhile, its executive aviation division—with the highest book-to-bill ratio in the industry—posted a backlog of $7.4 billion at the end of the quarter, representing a 62% year-over-year (YOY) increase but a slight decrease from the first quarter.
In the second quarter, Embraer delivered 38 business jets, a 41% increase over the 27 handed over during the same period a year ago, and 8% higher than the OEM’s five-year average for the quarter.
Embraer's services and support unit increased its backlog by 55% YOY, reaching $4.9 billion. A highlight in the quarter was the announcement that it will offer the Gogo Galileo HDX connectivity solution on the Phenom 300 via a supplemental type certificate developed in partnership with Gogo. FAA approval for this is expected by October.
Meanwhile, Embraer noted that it is the main exporter of high-value-added goods in Brazil. On this note, the company will discuss the threat of possible U.S. tariffs during its second-quarter results call on August 5.

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