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 aviation services provider&nbsp;Carver Aero&nbsp;has rebranded itself as&nbsp;Revv Aviation, a move the company describes as a reflection of the rapid growth it has experienced over the past two years.

 


Early in 2020,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-01-10/investment-firm-buys-family-owned-iowa-fbos">CL Enterprises acquired </a><a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-01-10/investment-firm-buys-family-owned-iowa-fbos">Carver Aero,</a>&nbsp;which at the time consisted of the FBOs at Iowa’s Davenport Municipal and Muscatine Municipal Airports, a Part 135 charter operation, and a Part 145 repair station at Davenport.

 


Since then, it has gone on to add the <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-01-21/carver-aero-adds-third-iowa-fbo">Advanced Air</a> FBO, flight school, charter operation, and maintenance shop at Council Bluffs Municipal Airport in Iowa; <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-07-09/carver-aero-fbo-group-expands-wisconsin">Janesville Jet Center</a>, the lone service provider at Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport; and&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-08-23/carver-aero-makes-inroads-illinois">LumanAir Aviation Services</a>, an FBO at&nbsp;Aurora Municipal Airport near Chicago, along with aircraft maintenance and servicing company ATS Illinois. It also&nbsp;was <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2022-04-26/carver-aero-adds-sixth-fbo">recently awarded a five-year lease</a> to take over as the sole service provider at&nbsp;Schaumburg Regional Airport in Illinois.

 


“Our vision is to be a trusted provider of FBO services for many communities throughout the Midwest and beyond for many decades,” explained CL Enterprises chairman Peter Limberger. &nbsp;An avid pilot, Limberger added that one of his goals is to bring the excitement of flying to school children&nbsp;by encouraging them to come out to the airport to see and touch airplanes. “Revv Aviation will build on the legacies of aviation family businesses throughout the Midwest and provide long-term careers and good-paying jobs in an expanding industry,” he said.

New developments at FBOs including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

Carver Aero Is Now Revv Aviation

Rapidly-expanding midwestern aviation services provider Carver Aero has rebranded itself as Revv Aviation.

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New developments at airports including regulations and noise issues; legal disputes; openings, acquisitions and mergers.

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