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

Atlantic Aviation has consolidated its position at California’s McClellan-Palomar Airport in Carlsbad, with the acquisition of the neighboring Jet Source FBO. Atlantic arrived at the airport early in 2016 with the purchase of the former Premier Jet FBO, which included its 15-acre leasehold.

 


The purchase of the adjacent Jet Source location adds another seven acres, along with 93,000 sq ft of hangars and 23,000 sq ft of terminal and offices, bringing the facility to a total of 308,000 sq ft of buildings on the airport. “We are pleased to offer more options for hangar storage and ramp space to Atlantic’s customers in the Southern California area,” noted Steve Hirschfeld, the company’s regional vice president of operations.

 


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