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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Curt Epstein

At NBAA’s Schedulers and Dispatchers Conference in New Orleans this week, the National Air Transportation Association recognized JetCenter Los Angeles at Jack Northrop Field/Hawthorne Municipal Airport as the second FBO to successfully complete the requirement for its Safety 1st Ground Audit Standard. <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2012-02-06/nata-unveils-fbo-audit-standard">Introduced nearly two years ago</a>, the standard is intended to promote best practices in the aircraft service industry. The association believes the program will eventually become the bar by which all FBOs are judged, just as quality standards from companies such as Wyvern and Argus are used to rate charter providers.


Designed with input from the association’s safety and security committee, the program examines seven operating areas: management system, safety management system (SMS) and quality assurance, training, standard operating procedures, security, occupational health and safety as well as environmental awareness to form a total mosaic of the FBO.


Last April, APP Jet Center at Hayward Executive Airport in Hayward, Calif., became the <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2013-05-03/app-jet-center-completes-new-nata-audit">first FBO to complete the requirements</a>.

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