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

Two weeks after Central Florida was ravaged by Hurricane Ian, Naples Municipal Airport (KAPF) will resume regular operating hours today.

 


The dedicated business and general aviation airport was inundated by storm surge and suffered damage to its lighting system, which limited operations to daylight hours once the runways and taxiways were cleaned up.

 


Full service to 5,000-foot Runway 14/32 has been restored for all flights&nbsp;through the assistance of Southwest Florida Regional Airport, Martin County Airport, Lake Charles Regional Airport, Orlando International Airport, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, and the Southeast Airports Disaster Operations Group, which provided materials&nbsp;and technical staff to restore the damaged lighting.

 


Repairs continue on KAPF’s 6,600-foot&nbsp;Runway 5/23, which remains open only from 7 a.m. until 7:30 p.m.

 


Naples Aviation, the airport-operated FBO, also resumed its normal operating hours of 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. today, with all fueling ending at 9:30 p.m.

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Naples Airport Resumes Normal Operating Hours 

After repairs to its lighting system in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, Florida's Naples Municipal Airport has resumed nighttime operations.

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