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

Michigan-based aviation services provider Avflight has taken over the lease of the former Flower Aviation and fueling operation of America Jet, previously the two FBOs at Salina Regional Airport in Kansas. It will operate the two facilities as Avfuel-branded Avflight North and South. The addition marks Avflight’s ninth owned and operated location. The Salina Airport Authority board of directors approved a new 20-year lease for the former Flower Aviation property, with two 10-year renewal options for it and the other properties in the agreement. Those properties have four-and-a-half years remaining on their leases. As part of the deal, Avflight agreed to provide the airport with a conditional right to terminate the lease if annual fuel flowage at the airport drops below 1.25 million gallons. The airport, located in the center of the U.S., is promoted as “America’s Fuel Stop,” last year recording a fuel flowage of nearly 2 million gallons. It sees approximately 90,000 operations annually. The FBO’s main operations will take place at the recently renovated Avflight North, which includes concierge services, conference room, a pilot lounge, flight-planning room and full catering kitchen. The other location will house tenant aircraft and the continuing America Jet maintenance division. With the new facilities, Avflight will have 28,500 sq ft of hangar space and access to another pair of newly renovated 40,000-sq-ft hangars owned by the airport authority, capable of sheltering regional jetliner-class aircraft.

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