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

Florida’s Page Field has completed a major nearly two-year-long runway and taxiway rehabilitation project. Work on Runway 5/23 and its associated taxiways began in January 2017, milling the runway down and overlaying new pavement. The $19 million first stage of the project also saw the rehabilitation of Taxiway A and its connectors, and a realignment of Taxiway C, which involved full depth pavement removal and reconstruction.

 


In addition, the airfield lighting vault (ALV) was demolished and replaced with a new ALV and backup generator, while new taxiway and runway LED edge lights were installed. PAPI systems were also added, along with other navigational equipment updates.

 


The second stage of the project, which cost an additional $8 million, concentrated on Runway 13/31 with a two-inch mill and overlay on the center keel of the runway, while the outer edges had full depth replacement. Taxiway E was also extended from the E2 connection to the end of Runway 13. As in the previous phase, LED lighting was installed along with new signage.

 


At its Avfuel-branded FBO (Booth 2219), the Fort Myers airport is currently engaged in a new $6.5 million hangar and ramp project, which began in May. It is constructing a new 25,000-sq-ft hangar with office space, and an additional 54,000 sq ft of ramp, which is expected to be completed in the spring.

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