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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For those wanting to see the interior of Walt Disney’s Gulfstream I, the Palm Springs Air Museum has announced a series of special tour nights.
<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2023-01-03/walt-disneys-other-mouse">Used extensively</a> as Disney’s personal transport, the turboprop twin (known unsurprisingly as “The Mouse”) flew the legendary film producer between California and the East Coast for a variety of missions during its nearly 30 years in service before it was eventually retired to a back lot at Walt Disney World in Florida.
The Mouse was unexpectedly recovered, repainted in its original scheme, and trucked to California in 2022 to serve as the <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2022-01-14/walt-disneys-restored-gi-highlight-disney-convention">centerpiece</a> of the Disney D23 convention in Anaheim. Following that, it was determined that the GI would be displayed at the Palm Springs museum, which would also <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2022-12-06/walt-disneys-gulfstream-i-be-restored">restore</a> the interior of the aircraft to its 1960s appearance in cooperation with the Disney Archives.
The museum is offering special limited-admission nights to see the airplane’s newly restored cabin, with the first scheduled for Saturday, October 17, with special guests Mark Malone, a former pilot of the airplane, and Walt Disney archives manager Ed Ovalle.
Other dates next year will include Saturdays: January 16, February 20, March 6, and April 3. Each night will feature a guest keynote speaker providing information about the aircraft and its restoration.

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