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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Illinois-based investment firm CL Enterprises has purchased family-owned aviation services provider Carver Aero, which operates the lone FBOs at Iowa’s Davenport Municipal and Muscatine Municipal Airports, both of which offer 5,500-foot main and 4,000-foot secondary runways. The acquisition represents CL's first foray into the aviation industry, and the locations will retain the Carver Aero name.

 


Davenport, which sees approximately 77 operations a day, has a &nbsp;modern 7,500-sq-ft terminal that includes a passenger lobby, pilot&nbsp;lounge, a pair of snooze rooms, a 30-seat conference room, flight-planning area, showers, and crew cars. The location has a 20,000-sq-ft heated hangar that can shelter up to midsize business jets.

 


In Muscatine, the FBO is open from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. and occupies the 4,000-sq-ft city-owned terminal with a passenger lobby, pilot lounge, snooze room, showers, 16-seat conference room, and crew cars. A 6,400-sq-ft hangar with a 16-foot high door can accommodate aircraft up to a Citation V, and the location includes 80,000 sq ft of ramp space.

 


The purchase also included Carver’s Part 135 operation, which has a Cessna Citation Ultra and three Beechcraft King Airs—a Model 90, 200, and 350—in its fleet, and a Part 145 repair station at the Davenport location.

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