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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North Sea Aviation Center (NCAS), a privately-owned aircraft services provider, is constructing an FBO at Belgium’s Ostend-Bruges International Airport (EBOS), which operates 24/7 and features a 10,500-foot/﻿3,200-meter main runway. It will be the first FBO at the airport, as private aircraft there have thus far been processed through the airline terminal. The company is about to open a 32,300-sq-ft/3,000-sq-m heated hangar that can accommodate ultra-long-range business jets.

 


When completed next March, the €2.5 million ($2.9 million) business aviation facility will feature a three-story 9,690-sq-ft/900-sq-m terminal, with in-house customs and border control, a VIP lounge, concierge service, pilots lounge with four snooze rooms and shower facilities, a 20-seat conference room, office space for tenants, and a rooftop bar/terrace offering views of the airport, as well as an additional 17,200-sq-ft/1,600-sq-m hangar.

 


An adjacent upscale restaurant can provide catering from its industrial-grade kitchen. According to the company, EBOS is a 15-minute flight to London, making it an affordable alternate for aircraft parking.

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