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

Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Airport might soon be receiving a second FBO. Its governing board last month unanimously authorized issuing a request for proposal (RFP). According to airport manager Jim Elwood, the board responded to a request by a party interested in establishing another service provider at the airport, which is currently served solely by Jackson Hole Aviation.


“The FAA has pretty distinct criteria for airports to consider in determining whether there is room for a second FBO, and that was the core of the decision,” Elwood told AIN, as the board considered if the opportunity exists for a second FBO to function on the airport, which sees approximately 83 operations a day. The RFP is currently under review, and Elwood expects it to be issued later this summer.


The heads of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the Experimental Aircraft Association all submitted letters in favor of establishing a second FBO at the airport, which had supported two FBOs in the past.

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