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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Daher has transitioned its flight operations at its Tarbes headquarters in southwestern France to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The OEM is known for its&nbsp;line of TBM turboprop singles, and its flight activities at Tarbes include production, testing, training, maintenance, and delivery. To power them, it now uses a blend of 30 percent SAF produced by Neste from renewable waste and residue raw materials. In its “neat” unblended form, SAF can provide lifecycle carbon emissions savings of up to&nbsp;80 percent.
Nicolas Chabbert, the company’s senior v-p of its aircraft division, noted that while it looks to set an example in the transition to low-carbon emission aviation, the availability of SAF still presents a challenge.&nbsp;“We took the initiative of going a step further by joining with the Spanish airline Volotea—a carrier that connects small and mid-sized cities in Europe and flies from Tarbes–Lourdes–Pyrénées Airport as part of its route network—to convince World Fuel Services to supply SAF on the platform,” he explained, “We expect our example will bring other operators to use renewable energy on airplanes.”
According to James Hardacre, World Fuel’s v-p of business aviation sales for Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, Daher’s adoption of SAF for its needs at Tarbes means “all users at this facility can now benefit from our supply of Neste-blended jet fuel.”

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