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

Business jet manufacturers saw a better than 12-percent jump in first-half global deliveries year over year, with 318 private jets handed over during the first six months, according to statistics released today by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA).&nbsp;


<div>"The encouraging numbers in the piston airplane and business jet segments drive the industry’s optimism about global general aviation growth, but deliveries of turboprops this quarter were flat,” GAMA president and CEO Pete Bunce said today at EAA AirVenture 2014. "Here at Oshkosh, enthusiasm toward the light airplane industry is clearly palpable."</div>


Much of this increase was fueled by Cessna, which delivered 71 private jets in the first half of the year, a 36.5-percent rise over the same period last year. The Textron Aviation subsidiary was buoyed by recent certifications on its Citation M2, Sovereign+ and X+ models. Embraer and Gulfstream also saw better than 18-percent year-over-year increases in the first half, while Dassault and Bombardier delivered four and three fewer jets, respectively.


The pressurized turboprop segment remained virtually static, with just one more aircraft delivery in the first half of this year than it had in the first six months of 2013.

GAMA: Business Jet Rally Continues in Second Quarter

Business jet deliveries in the first half climbed by more than 12 percent year-over-year, to 318.

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