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

Landmark Aviation bolstered its aircraft management division with the purchase late last week of national services provider TWC Aviation, which manages a fleet of more than 50 jets and turboprops from bases at California’s San Jose International and Van Nuys Airports, Scottsdale (Ariz.) Airport and Westchester County Airport in White Plains, N.Y. The move expands Landmark’s large-cabin managed fleet with the addition of a G550, a Global Express and nine Falcon 2000s.

 


Last year, through a series of corporate purchases, <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2014-06-05/recent-acquisitions-boost-landmarks-managed-fleet" target="_blank">Landmark increased the size of its managed fleet</a> by more than 50 percent and with this latest acquisition it now manages around 120 business aircraft, trailing only Executive Jet Management, which manages approximately 200 aircraft. “When coupled with our current aircraft offering, this expansion of our fleet will produce time- and cost savings for all of our customers,” said Ben Murray, president of Landmark’s aircraft management and charter division. “Our new customers will benefit through our growing FBO and MRO networks.”

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