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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Aruba’s Department of Civil Aviation (DCA) is the latest governing body to validate Gulfstream’s new flagship G700.
The announcement comes after the ultra-long-range twinjet received <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2024-03-29/globe-girdling-gulfstream-g700-gets-faa-greenlight">FAA certification</a> at the end of March. That was followed in early May by <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2024-05-15/gulfstream-g700-lands-european-nod">EASA authorization</a>. Since then, it has racked up more than 10 other approvals, including the UK and Mexico, demonstrating the Savannah, Georgia-based airframer’s commitment to meeting stringent safety and performance standards across various jurisdictions, the DCA said.
Gulfstream expects to deliver more than 50 of the $81 million, 7,700 nm-range twinjets by the end of the year.
The <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2017-05-22/aruba-registry-touts-benefits-aircraft-owners">Registry of Aruba</a>—which was established nearly 30 years ago as the first privately managed Category 1 aircraft registry in the world—is one of the few whose registered aircraft can operate under a U.S. operator certificate, and a sizable portion of its customer base consists of European-owned or -operated aircraft. It is expecting the addition of the first G700 to the registry by the end of the month.

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