As an AIN staff member for nearly two decades, I have accumulated a fair amount of branded “merch” from industry companies—items presented to me after visits or location tours—ranging from custom-designed Lego-style FBO kits to hammocks. Among the most popular giveaways are shirts. I have accumulated a drawer full over the years, and they're adorned with logos or names of companies. But I still remember the first one I was given.
While attending the NBAA White Plains Regional Forum held this week at New York's Westchester County Airport (KHPN), I was taken back to my first NBAA regional event at my “backyard” airport. It was 2007 and I'd joined AIN just a few months earlier.
A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined AIN in 2007, Curt came to the publication 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 AIN sister publication 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 Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with 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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