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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Commercial real estate investment firm SomeraRoad has launched a new investment platform SR Aviation Infrastructure (SRAI) with the purchase of the Quail Air Center complex at Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport (KLAS).
Established in 1985, the 23-acre facility features 268,000 sq ft of hangar space that can accommodate bizliners and 32,000 sq ft of offices. It acts as a private FBO, providing fueling and ground handling services for tenants.
“Quail Air Center is one of the premier general aviation facilities in the country, offering best-in-class hangar infrastructure and an unparalleled location just steps from the Las Vegas Strip,” said SomeraRoad partner and SRAI president Jonathon Reeser. “We have been working on the acquisition of this incredible asset for a long time and have large aspirations for the role this initial crown jewel can play in the scaling of a larger aviation infrastructure platform.”
SomeraRoad sees aviation infrastructure as “one of the most compelling opportunities in real estate today,” fueled by the increase in private air travel and limited new airport development, particularly in the general aviation sector.
Looking ahead, the company has identified additional near-term investment opportunities including general aviation, corporate aviation, FBO, and MRO hangars.
“We see tremendous opportunity for SRAI to aggregate the highly fragmented aviation infrastructure to an industrial scale,” explained Monte Koch, the company’s senior advisor.

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