AIN Blog: Another Indie Bites the Dust
The sale of stalwart California FBO AirFite comes on the heels of the purchase of another powerhouse independent FBO.
Long a fixture at Long Beach Airport, the soon-to-be-former AirFlite facility remains as immaculate and stylish as the day it opened in 1992.
Long a fixture at Long Beach Airport, the soon-to-be-former AirFlite facility remains as immaculate and stylish as the day it opened in 1992.
Curt Epstein
Senior Editor
About the author

A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined AIN in 2007, Curt came to the publication 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 AIN sister publication 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  Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.

Before joining AIN, Curt worked with 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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