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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The TSA has added another FBO to its list of approved participants in the DCA Access Standard Security Program (DASSP), which was established in 2006, for customers wishing to fly directly into Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

 


As it celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, National Jets, one of four FBOs at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, was named a DCA gateway. According to Reggie Nichols, the facility’s general manager, the application process took approximately three months, including paperwork, establishing a security program, training and TSA inspections, which determined that the facility would not require any modifications to comply with the agency’s FBO standard security program.

 


Meanwhile, Chicagoland’s B. Coleman Aviation, whose FBO at Gary/Chicago International Airport was added to the list in 2015, also announced that Coleman Jet, its charter and management division, has earned authorization to operate directly into DCA.

 


The TSA began restricting general aviation ﻿access into the airport in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Any general aviation aircraft flying into DCA must arrive from a designated gateway facility and comply with all security aspects of the program.

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