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

Long-time Maine aviation services provider Mac Air Group has broken ground on an FBO at Portland International Jetport (PWM). The $6 million facility will provide a 13,000-sq-ft, two-story terminal with a crew lounge and quiet room, flight-planning center, crew cars, showers and fitness center, along with a passenger lounge, conference room, on-site car rental, concierge and catering service. Plans call for 30,000 sq ft of hangar space to shelter aircraft up to a Global 6000. Mac Air says the facility will provide quick turns.

 


The company had previously operated an FBO at PWM, before divesting the aircraft handling service to concentrate on its Part 145 maintenance, aircraft charter and sales operations. That facility was later acquired by current FBO operator Northeast Air. Mac Air will continue to provide maintenance on the opposite side of the airport, which has a 7,200-foot main runway. Completion of the new pre-fab steel facility is anticipated early next year.

Mac Air Breaks Ground at Portland

The company expects to complete the facility at Portland International Jetport by early next year.

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