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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Lufthansa Technik has received approval from Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation to perform maintenance on Saudi-registered aircraft. Last month, the company’s Middle East division performed its first A-check on a Saudi Airbus A320 in the hangar of DC Aviation Al-Futtaim at Dubai’s Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC).

 


The 400 man-hours check included examination of all systems necessary for flight safety, the exchange of several components, and the completion of Service Bulletins. It also included cooperation from the DC Aviation/Al-Futtaim Group joint venture at DWC.

 


“We are only the second VIP MRO supplier in the Gulf region approved for Saudi-registered aircraft of the Airbus ACJ320 family and Boeing BBJ types,” said Omar Aker, Lufthansa Technik’s regional sales manager. “The first A-check maintenance has been finished within budget and ahead for schedule.”

 


“The cooperation agreement with Lufthansa Technik takes advantage of our facility and the increasing infrastructure available thereby providing the strong foundations for offering maintenance services to our customers both in the region and beyond,” said Holger Ostheimer, the facility’s managing director. “The agreement also enables us to further diversify our technical knowledge through the larger number of aircraft types being supported.”

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