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

Signature Flight Support has received permission from the airport authority at California’s Santa Barbara Municipal Airport (SBA) to acquire Mag Aviation Fuel, the airfield's lone self-service avgas facility. Once the deal is finalized, the location will be the 14th in the company's U.S. network to provide the self-service option.

 


One of two service providers on the field, Signature has operated an FBO at SBA for two decades, and once the Mag purchase is completed over the next several weeks, self-serve customers will receive complimentary parking on its transient ramp on the day of the fueling event and pedestrian access to and from the airport operations area via the FBO terminal, the company noted.

 


“Signature continuously works with suppliers to ensure a consistent and dependable supply of avgas is available to general aviation customers,” said company president and COO Maria Sastre. “We’re confident that this additional self-service avgas facility further expresses our commitment to both the local Santa Barbara pilot community and general aviation community as a whole.”

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