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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Atlantic Aviation, one of four service providers at Florida business aviation hub Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE), has opened its new FBO terminal. The 7,000-sq-ft building at the west end of Runway 9/27 more than doubles the chain’s former terminal on the other side of the field, which will be retained for tenant office space.
The facility&nbsp;features two passenger lounges with refreshment bar, 12-seat conference room, pilot lounge with snooze room and showers, kitchen area, on-site car rentals, and a pair of crew cars. It&nbsp;also includes 170,000-sq-ft of aircraft storage space spread among its 24 hangars capable of sheltering aircraft up to a Bombardier Global 7500.
“From absolute first-class décor to high-tech conference rooms and compelling crew services, no detail has been overlooked,” explained Kurt Schmidt, the chain’s senior v-p of operations for the U.S. Southeast. “We’re excited to welcome customers to our new facility and I feel certain they’ll be amazed at all that has been done.”
As the first part of a multi-phase expansion at the location, Atlantic also added four acres of ramp to the complex. According to the company, it expects to finalize plans this year for&nbsp;additional phases that will include more community hangars.

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