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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Meridian has expanded its Teterboro, N.J.-based aviation services company all the way across the country, with this month's opening of its second FBO, located at California’s Hayward Executive Airport. The Epic Fuels-branded location is the second service provider at the San Francisco Bay Area airfield. It features a 6,300-sq-ft terminal and office building, with a passenger lobby offering a lounge, coffee bar, business center, conference room, pilot lounge equipped with recliners, a snooze room, pilot briefing room, shower and locker facilities, kitchen, on site car rental and crew cars.
The $10 million facility, which will also serve as a West Coast base for the company’s charter management fleet, has a 30,000-sq-ft hangar capable of sheltering the latest class of ultra-long-range business jets and 3.5 acres of ramp. Aircraft maintenance support is available as the location has a full-time licensed A&amp;P mechanic to service Meridian’s charter aircraft as well as transients.
“We are extremely pleased to be able to announce the opening of our new FBO, Meridian Hayward, at this year’s NBAA Convention,” company CEO Ken Forester told AIN. “The genesis of this project began four years ago, and now it’s no longer a vision, but a reality. Hayward is the keystone of our long-term growth strategy, which also includes a new hangar project happening in Teterboro, and the continued expansion of our charter fleet.”&nbsp;
The company, which has been a fixture at Teterboro Airport since its founding in 1958, has a 50-year lease on the Hayward property and is planning a second phase of construction there to add another 12,000-sq-ft terminal, two 40,000-sq-ft hangars and more ramp space to bring the facility to more than 10 acres. An official grand opening is slated for December 15.&nbsp;

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