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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Ross Aviation has acquired rival Signature Flight Support’s facility at California’s Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport, which gives it two FBOs at the Palm Springs-area gateway. The new location expands Ross’s leasehold on the airport to approximately 40 acres. It will continue to operate the new location, which includes a 9,000-sq-ft, two-story terminal with offices, 25,000 sq ft of community hangar space and 17,500 sq ft of T-hangars, as Ross Aviation South, retaining most of the former Signature employees. Between the two locations, the company now has more than 122,000 sq ft of hangar space, and agreements with its hangar tenants can boost that number by another 20,000 sq ft of large aircraft storage capability.

 


“We see Thermal not only as a primary airport serving the Coachella Valley&nbsp;but also as an excellent alternative to other facilities in the region, which are becoming increasingly congested,” said Brian Corbett, Ross’s recently-named CEO.&nbsp;“We anticipate hosting traffic from a variety of previously traditional destinations in the area, and now have the ramp space and hangar capacity, along with outstanding passenger and crew facilities, to accommodate them comfortably throughout the year.”

 


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