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

Gulfstream announced yesterday that its flagship G650 and G650ER ultra-long-range twinjets have received type certificate validation from China’s Civil Aviation Administration, confirming the authorization given by the FAA, and removing the last barriers for an aircraft to be registered in the Asian country. The approval marks the 26th country approval for the G650 and the 16th for the G650ER.


“The G650 and G650ER demonstrate real-world capability that our customers value,” said Scott Neal, the Savannah airframer’s senior vice president of worldwide sales. “As business aviation needs in the Asia-Pacific region continue to increase, we are pleased to offer our customers in China the safety, performance and reliability [of] the G650 and G650ER.” At Mach 0.85, the G650 offers a range of 7,000 nm, while its longer-legged G650ER sister can travel 7,500 nm.


In February 2015, the G650ER set two city-pair speed records, during a one-stop, around-the-world trip, traveling 6,939 nm from White Plains, N.Y., to Beijing at Mach 0.87, and a 6,572-nm return from Beijing to Savannah at Mach 0.89.

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