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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Paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams, through its aerospace coatings division, has contributed to the restoration of a pair of C-47s appearing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this week at EAA AirVenture.

 


A WWII-vintage C-47 owned by the American Flight Museum was painted in the colors of an AC-47 gunship in which Congressional Medal of Honor recipient John Levitow served during the Vietnam War. The company donated the paint necessary to recreate the historic scheme, including nine kits of military specification primer along with military topcoats in tan, black, and two shades of green.

 


“[For] a not-for-profit flying air museum, this kind of support from Sherwin-Williams is tremendous,” said museum president Robert Rice. “With this donation, we can continue to pay proper tribute to the gunship’s legacy.”

 


The second of the twin-engine transports on display is from the Yankee Air Museum, which chose to replicate the brown and gray paint scheme worn by the 1st Air Commando Group during WWII in the China-Burma-India theater of operations. “The coatings applied are military grade,” noted Fernando Hernandez, a technical representative with Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings, describing the donated materials. “Now that the plane is done, it is fit for service, as everything we are supplying meets military specifications.”

Paint Company Gives C-47s New Coats

A pair of the WWII-era transports on display at EAA AirVenture sport new paint schemes thanks to Sherwin-Williams' philanthropy.

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