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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Oregon-based aviation services provider Leading Edge Jet Center (LEJC) has acquired Kenmore Aero Services, one of three FBOs at Seattle King County-Boeing Field International Airport (BFI). For LEJC, this marks its third location in the region beyond facilities at Oregon’s Roberts Field Airport in Redmond and Bend Municipal Airport.
The company already had a presence at BFI through its earlier purchase of a 37,000-sq-ft hangar, which can accommodate super-midsize business jets, and 23,000 sq ft of adjoining offices. It has plans to replace Kenmore’s 1970s-era, 4,000-sq-ft terminal, which sits on a six-acre leasehold located on the southeast corner of the field, with a new building triple its size and add 45,000 sq ft of new hangars capable of sheltering the latest large-cabin business jets. LEJC is currently working through the design and permitting process and hopes to break ground within a year on the new complex.
“This is an exciting growth development opportunity for LEJC to meet the essential need for business aviation in the Pacific Northwest and beyond as we pursue consolidation opportunities at growth airports,” said company executive chairman Steven Levesque. “Seattle has been one of the fastest-growing metro areas in America over the last decade, and BFI is a highly sought-after airport for business and private aviation travelers.”

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