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

FBOs

Ohio Airport To Issue RFP for Lone FBO

Ohio’s Middletown Regional Airport/Hook Field expects to find a new operator for its FBO by mid 2021.
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FBOs

Signature Mulls $4B Acquisition by Private-equity Group Blackstone

Signature Aviation, the parent company of Signature Flight Support, has received purchase offers of late, with the latest worth an approximate $4 billion
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Maintenance and Modifications

Epic Aircraft Partners with Frasca and ATP

Epic Aircraft has announced two support partnerships for its new E1000 GX turboprop single.
Training and Workforce

Oregon Flight School Receives Vietnam Training Nod

Oregon-based Hillsboro Aero Academy (HAA) has received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to conduct professional pilot training.
FBOs

California FBO Air 7 Joins Air Elite Network

Air 7, an FBO at California’s Camarillo Airport is the latest to join the World Fuel-sponsored Air Elite Network.
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FBOs

Avflight Acquires Arizona FBO

Avflight has expanded its FBO chain with the addition of Falcon Executive Aviation, the lone full-service provider at Mesa, Arizona’s Falcon Field Airport.
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FBOs

Sheltair Adds Hangar in Ocala

Sheltair has completed construction on a 20,000-sq-ft hangar at Florida’s Ocala International Airport.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Duncan To Open New Flammability Test Lab

Duncan Aviation expects to open the flammability lab at its Battle Creek, Michigan, facility by the end of March.
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FBOs

Lynx FBO Expands in Northeast U.S.

Lynx FBO has acquired Northstar Aviation, the lone service provider at Providence, Rhode Island’s Theodore Francis Green State Airport.
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Avionics

AEA Slides Annual Convention from March to June

Originally slated to take place starting on March 15, 2021, AEA's three-day annual convention is now scheduled for June 22-25 and will remain in Dallas.
FBOs

NATA Continues Hangar Foam Revision Quest

The second draft meeting for NFPA's 409 aircraft hangar fire protection code is slated for February.
Safety

Covid Is No Hoax, and No Joke Either

An AIN editor shares his experience with the disease.
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Aircraft

Otto Aviation Launches Zero-emissions Aircraft

Otto Aviation, which is developing a six-seat, aero-diesel powered aircraft, announced it will also create a zero-emissions version of the Celera 500L.
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Safety

Aspen Airport Introducing Covid Testing Requirements

Pitkin County, which encompasses popular ski resorts, has instituted a travel affidavit policy that all travelers must complete.
Environment

SAF Now Flowing at Signature San Francisco, London Luton

SIgnature Flight Support has established permanent SAF supplies at two of its FBOs.
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Airports

Fort Worth Alliance Airport Sees First International VVIP Flight

A Boeing 777-300ER modified by GDC Technics made an 8,000-mile nonstop delivery flight from Fort Worth Alliance Airport to India.
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Environment

Major Commodity Index To Now Include SAF Pricing

Global energy and commodity price benchmarking index Argus announced today that it will begin including the SAF price for U.S. West Coast markets.

JetNet Downgrades Bizjet Delivery Forecast

As part of its annual “State of the Market” press conference, JetNet forecast a market for 6,362 business jets worth $204.4 billion over 10 years.
FBOs

Jet Aviation To Debut Scottsdale Location

Jet Aviation will open its new FBO and hangar complex at Arizona’s Scottsdale Airport this month.
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Safety

Baldwin Safety & Compliance Offers Virtual SMS Training

Baldwin Safety & Compliance has introduced several new initiatives to its slate of safety management programs.
Training and Workforce

IADA Debuts New Online Broker Education Program

The International Aircraft Dealers Association (IADA) this morning announced the launch of IADA U, its new education program.

JetNet iQ Survey Shows Industry Optimism

Despite the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic, the business aviation industry remains optimistic, according to industry data provider JetNet.
FBOs

Lynx To Build New FBO at FXE

Lynx FBO will break ground on a new multi-million dollar facility at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport
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Fuel

Onsite Diesel Exhaust Fluid Test Kit Available Soon

New Jersey-based Acustrip has developed the first onsite test kit to detect the presence of DEF in jet-A.
Engines

Rolls-Royce To Begin Unblended SAF Tests

Rolls-Royce is launching testing of 100 percent SAF in one of its Trent engines.
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NBAA Announces First 2021 Virtual Events

With the Covid pandemic still inhibiting the staging of industry events, NBAA has announced two new virtual meetings for the first quarter of 2021.
FutureFlight

XTI, VerdeGo Aero Partner On Smaller Cargo TriFan

Hybrid-electric propulsion specialist VerdeGo Aero is partnering with XTI Aircraft to create the TriFan 200, a smaller version of XTI’s currently-under-development TriFan 600 VTOL passenger aircraft.
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FBOs

TOP FLIGHT AWARDS NOMINEES: FBOs

The FBO industry continues to build comprehensive new facilities like these contenders for the Top Flight Awards.
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Aircraft

Covid Effects Weigh On Bizav 3Q Deliveries

Business jets and turboprops deliveries still lag previous year tallies by double digits, according to the General Aviation Manufacturers Association.
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Maintenance and Modifications

Oklahoma MRO Earns Scimitar Blade STC for MU-2

Intercontinental Jet Service Corp has received an STC for Hartzell’s four-bladed scimitar aluminum prop installations on Mitsubishi MU-2s.