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

Looking to help combat the flow of unapproved aircraft parts into the propulsion supply chain, the Aviation Supply Chain Integrity Coalition has released a report recommending several actions.
Among them are promoting the use of suppliers that meet the FAA’s recommended standards in Advisory Circular 00-56B or an equivalent EASA or other international standard; digitizing key documents for parts and expanding the use of digital signatures; adopting training best practices for receiving and inspecting parts, along with best practices for scrapping or destroying non-usable parts; and developing feedback channels to identify bad actors to accreditors of suppliers.
The report, generated over the past nine months by the GE Aviation-led coalition, came after a UK-based dealer was accused of selling thousands of engine parts with counterfeited documentation.&nbsp;The coalition includes senior representatives from major airlines, airframers, engine makers, and maintenance providers, and is headed by former NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt and former U.S. Department of Transportation deputy secretary John Porcari.
“These recommendations will close holes and add new layers of safety to strengthen the integrity of the supply chain,” said Sumwalt.
The coalition has shared its report with the FAA and EASA, along with law enforcement officials. Several of the coalition members have already begun implementing the recommendations.

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