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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Preowned transactions were up in every category, but the average time to sell increased by 85 days compared to 2024, as pricing continues to soften, particularly in the midsize category. Overall, values decreased by 6.1%, with mid-cabin jets seeing the steepest drop at nearly 20%. Light&nbsp;jets saw a 5% decrease in price, while large-cabin jets climbed 16%.
To JetNet, that indicates buyers may be more cautious about purchasing aircraft outright, and perhaps shifting to fractional ownership in response to evolving market conditions.
In the interim results of its latest quarterly JetNet iQ survey, more than half the respondents indicated that the market hasn’t reached its lowest point, a factor that survey creator Rolland Vincent of Rolland Vincent Associates attributes to concerns over economic growth, supply chain performance, and capricious tariff shifts.
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