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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ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services China has received EASA approval to provide line maintenance on the Falcon 6X, which entered service in 2023 as Dassault’s flagship business jet.
The maintenance provider—a wholly-owned franchisee of ExecuJet MRO Services, which is owned by Dassault Aviation—is now authorized to provide AOG support for the wide-cabin Falcon 6X at its facilities at Beijing Capital International Airport (ZBAA), Beijing Daxing International Airport (ZBAD), and Tianjin Binhai International Airport (ZBTJ). ExecuJet Haite operates Dassault-authorized service centers at the latter two locations.
It offers a full slate of line and base maintenance, including heavy-base inspections, structure and composite repair, interior repair, avionics modifications and installations, component repair, and airframe painting on aircraft from major business jet manufacturers such as Bombardier, Embraer, Dassault, and Gulfstream.
“With our substantial investment in ground support equipment and having our [maintenance technicians] trained at Dassault Aviation in Bordeaux, France, ExecuJet Haite now offers superb maintenance support on the Falcon 6X in Beijing, Tianjin, and throughout Greater China and the region,” said Paul Desgrosseilliers, ExecuJet Haite’s general manager.

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