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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According to published reports, China has ordered its airlines to stop accepting further orders of Boeing airplanes in response to the U.S. government's imposed tariffs. The Chinese government has also reportedly demanded a halt of purchases of aircraft-related equipment and parts from U.S. companies.
Jefferies examined the backlogs of Gulfstream and Textron Aviation based on data from Cirium and determined their exposure in China. Since 2015, the country has accounted for 7% of Gulfstream deliveries and 3% of those from Textron Aviation.
Textron Aviation lists 10 single-engine turboprop Caravans to China in its backlog, but no pending business jet deliveries, while Gulfstream does not have any disclosed business jet deliveries to China, per the Cirium data. Historically, China would account for 4% of the General Dynamics subsidiary’s backlog, increasing to as much as 7% if the “unknown” deliveries are included.
Last year, business jet departures in China accounted for just 1% of the world’s total across all business jet types. Jefferies noted that “this implies that any services or parts sales to China would also be in the range that is manageable with other demand.”
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