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 filed suit against the city of San Jose, Calif., in its efforts to block development of a new Signature Flight Support facility at Norman I. Mineta International Airport. Last month, Signature, in partnership with a group representing the business aircraft of Google’s executives, was awarded a <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/ainalerts/2013-04-23/signature-flight-gets-green-light-fbo-san-jose">50-year lease by the San Jose City Council</a> and intends to begin construction on the $82 million FBO this year.


Signature’s proposal, which called for $2.6 million in annual rent and a minimum guarantee of $400,000 in annual fuel flowage fee revenue, was selected over bids by Ross Aviation and Atlantic, which currently operates the only FBO on the airport. Atlantic’s earlier appeal of approval of the Signature plan by the airport’s evaluating staff was rejected.


The petition filed in California Superior Court claims San Jose failed to follow California and city law in meeting its obligations for addressing known safety issues and analyzing environmental impact. Atlantic has issue with the airport’s failure to permanently close a seldom used runway that abuts its property, claiming that if the runway is reinstated, it will likely lose a sizable portion of its leasehold due to FAA safety requirements.


In a statement, Signature said its San Jose FBO “development remains ‘full speed ahead,’ with a projected groundbreaking in the fall.”

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