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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The lone FBO at Barkley Regional Airport in West Paducah, Kentucky (KPAH) has a new operator for the first time in more than three decades with the awarding of the facility to Airport Management Solutions (AMS), which has rebranded the facility as Four Rivers Aviation and made it a part of the Avfuel branded dealer network.
The FBO—which is open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day—features a 7,700-sq-ft two-story terminal with passenger and pilot lounges, kitchenette, refreshment bar, crew cars, and onsite car rental. It has more than 23,000 sq ft of hangar space that can accommodate light jets.
AMS—which operates four other FBOs in the South and Midwest—was selected by the airport authority over three other applicants in the RFP process. Incumbent Midwest Aviation, which had operated the location since the early 1990s, chose not to submit a proposal, preferring to concentrate on its maintenance operations at nearby Mayfield Graves County Airport and at Veterans Airport of Southern Illinois in Marion. “AMS has a proven history of successfully managing FBOs and is excited for this new venture,” said Erick Larson, the company’s director of business development.
According to KPAH director Dennis Rouleau, the airport is about to begin a $3 million renovation of the terminal, to be followed by a $2 million replacement of the fuel farm.

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