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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Private aviation real estate developer and operator Sky Harbour will be moving into the Dallas Metroplex in a big way with the signing of ground leases at three area airports for the creation of new "Home Base Operator" campuses.
The company signed a lease with the city of Fort Worth for a 4.2-acre plot at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport (KFTW) with an option for an additional acre, should it become available. It plans to break ground in late 2026 on a $17 million complex consisting of a pair of 32,000-sq-ft private hangars capable of sheltering the latest ultra-long-range business jets. It will also install a dedicated fuel tank in the airport’s fuel farm, with anticipated opening in late 2027.
Meanwhile, the Dallas city council also approved Sky Harbour for leases at Dallas Love Field (KDAL) and Dallas Executive Airport (KRBD). At KDAL, where it has a 7.5-acre lease, it is planning to build two 37,000-sq-ft hangars (which each can be divided into two smaller hangars) and install its own fuel farm with an investment of $17.5 million. And it will double the number of 37,000-sq-ft hangars it expects to place on a 16-acre leasehold at KRBD. The $35 million facility there will also include its own fuel farm. These are expected to be completed in 2028.
These bring the company’s tally to 23 airports in the U.S., with nine locations in operation and 14 under development. In an example of its vertical integration, Sky Harbour constructs its own multiple-sized hangars as standard kits, and delivers them to the locations where its build crews erect them.
At most of the locations, it provides dedicated fueling services, with exclusive ground handling services and in-hangar suites tailored to each operator’s needs, at all its facilities.
“Dallas is already one of the most robust business aviation markets in the United States, and is also among the fastest-growing,” said company CEO Tal Keinan, noting its existing facility at Addison Airport (KADS). “We see advantages in clustering Sky Harbour campuses in the nation’s deepest business aviation markets, manifesting in more tailored solutions to the respective business aviation communities and in significant [operational expenditure] and [capital expenditure] benefits.”

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