Curt Epstein
Senior Editor

A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined AIN in 2007, Curt came to the publication 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 AIN sister publication 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  Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.

Before joining AIN, Curt worked with 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.

Curt Epstein

Latest from Curt Epstein

Ground Handling App Expands Coverage to Europe

Six months after it was launched to provide insight for ground handling in South and Central America, MyHandler App is expanding to cover Europe as well.

Flashback: Chrysler Flight Dept. Disbanded; New FBO Created

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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Flashback: MNG Jet Says Employee Acted Alone in Arranging Escape Flights for Fugitive Ghosn

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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Aircraft

Flashback: Diamond Aircraft Joins the Small-jet Fray

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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Aircraft

Flashback: Kitbuilt Supersonic Jet Single Next on Jim Bede’s Hit List

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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Flashback: Aviation Convention News Rebrands To Aviation International News

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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Aircraft

Flashback: Beech Super King Air 300 Bows in at $2.34M

We look back at some memorable events and coverage from AIN's half-century-old archives.
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Airports

Alabama Airport Looks To Address Runway Safety Area Mandate

Faced with an FAA mandate to expand the runway safety area on Runway 18/36, Alabama’s Auburn University Regional Airport is looking to acquire land.
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FBOs

Idaho Service Provider Acquires Phoenix FBO

Jackson Jet, a service provider at Idaho’s Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field, has acquired Swift Aviation Services at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
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Airports

Vinci Takes Over at France's Annecy Mont-Blanc Airport

International private airport operator Vinci Airports began the management of France’s Annecy Mont-Blanc Airport on January 1.
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Airports

Amid Holiday Surge, Bozeman Airport Sees Jet-A Shortage

A surge in holiday travel to Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport has led to a temporary shortage of jet-A on the field.
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Charter & Fractional

Fractional Provider Volato Places Order for 15 HondaJets

Fractional HondaJet operator Volato, which launched last fall, has ordered 15 HondaJet Elite S aircraft.
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FBOs

Cutter Aviation Adds Texas FBO

With its purchase of Austin, Texas-area AeroJet FBO, Cutter Aviation's FBO network now totals five locations across the Southwest.
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FBOs

FBO Profile: Aero-One Aviation, Dothan Regional Airport

Aero-One Aviation has served Alabama’s Dothan Regional Airport since 2010 and it has been the lone service provider there since 2014.
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Regulations and Government

Trip Support in the Age of Covid

Trip support providers say business is nearing or exceeding pre-Covid levels, a big change since the start of the pandemic.
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Airports

Spanish Airport Goes on the Auction Block

Located less than 40 miles from Madrid, Spain’s Ocaña Airfield is available to the highest bidder.
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Environment

First Private Aircraft Fueled with SAF in Italy

Italy’s Milan Linate Airport is now the first in the country to fuel a business aircraft with sustainable aviation fuel.
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Environment

Atlantic Goes Green in Aspen

Atlantic Aviation introduced a new initiative at Colorado’s Aspen-Pitkin County Airport that will have all fuel bought and used there be carbon neutral.
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UAE Trip Support Provider Opens U.S. Office

Aviation services provider Prime Trip Support has established a new U.S. headquarters in Houston.
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Finance, Taxes, Insurance

Milwaukee FBO Joins the Avfuel Network

Spring City Aviation, the lone service provider at Milwaukee’s Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport, has joined the Avfuel-branded dealer network.
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NBAA Postpones SDC2022 Until April

NBAA's annual Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference, originally scheduled for January, has been rescheduled to early April.
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FBOs

EBAA Postpones AIROPS to April, Citing New Covid Wave

With Covid infection rates again on the rise in Europe, EBAA announced today that it is postponed its annual two-day AIROPS conference to early April.
FBOs

ASL Group Opens New Genav Terminal at Liege Airport

ASL Group, which is now the exclusive general aviation aircraft handler at Belgium’s Liege Airport, has unveiled its newly-built general aviation terminal.
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FBOs

San Francisco Bay Area FBO Adds New Hangar Complex

Five Rivers Aviation, the sole service provider at San Francisco-area Livermore Municipal Airport, has completed a new 43,000-sq-ft hangar complex.
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Environment

Aviation Industry Groups Object to Santa Clara 100LL Ban

Aviation groups are protesting the decision by California’s Santa Clara County to ban the sale of 100LL aviation gasoline at two GA airports.
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Regulations and Government

NBAA: Make Those Super Bowl Plans Now

Coordination for the cloud of private aircraft expected to descend on the Los Angeles area for the February 13 NFL championship game has already begun.
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Environment

Clay Lacy Earns First NATA Sustainability Certification

Clay Lacy Aviation has become the first company certified under NATA’s recently launched Sustainability Standard for Aviation Businesses program.
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Environment

FAA Awards More SAF Production Research Funds

Looking to amplify its efforts to establish supply chains for sustainable aviation fuel, the FAA has awarded more than $14 million to university research.
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Avfuel's Craig Sincock To Be Honored at L.A. Gala

Avfuel Corporation owner, president and CEO Craig Sincock will be among those honored at the 19th annual Living Legends of Aviation Awards in January.
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Regulations and Government

London Bizav Airport To Offer Rapid Covid Testing

With Covid infection rates once again on the rise, the UK’s London Biggin Hill Airport is now offering rapid result PCR tests to arriving customers.
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