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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Carl Hirschmann, Jet Aviation’s former CEO and the eldest son of company founder Carl W. Hirschmann, died on July 31 in Zurich, Switzerland, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 61. The younger Hirschmann, who was groomed by his father to lead the Zurich-based company, joined Jet Aviation in 1975 and rose to the position of CEO during the mid-1980s. Following a disagreement with his father, in 1984 Carl Jr. left the company, which was eventually taken over by his younger brother, Thomas Hirschmann, after the retirement of his father. Thomas stayed at the helm until 2003, and the Hirschmann family sold Jet Aviation to private equity firm Permira in 2005. At that time, in a surprise turn of events, Carl Jr. maintained his minority shareholder status and returned to the company as vice chairman of Jet Aviation Holding AG. In 2007, he served as interim CEO until current president Peter Edwards joined the company. “He always represented the strong principles and values of Jet Aviation,” said Edwards. Gulfstream parent company General Dynamics acquired Jet Aviation from Permira two years ago.

Former Jet Aviation scion dies

Carl Hirschmann, Jet Aviation’s former CEO and the eldest son of company founder Carl W.

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