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

Enstrom Helicopter has partnered with Canadian service provider Heli-Lynx Helicopters to perform authorized maintenance, repairs, and overhauls on its piston-engine and turbine models.
“Enstrom owners will be in very capable hands with Heli-Lynx,” said Doug Smith, the OEM’s v-p of product support, as the company announced the partnership during Verticon this week in Dallas. “The company boasts nearly 23 years of helicopter completions, maintenance, STC development, repair and overhaul, and some of the finest paint work in the industry.”
Located in Southern Ontario and supporting private and commercial operators for more than two decades, Heli-Lynx recently completed construction on a new 14,000-sq-ft facility to enhance its capacity. The new service center has an LED-lit paint booth, the latest avionics testing equipment, and maintenance bays suitable for up to medium-size helicopters.
“With Heli-Lynx’s close proximity to the U.S. and international airports, we are thrilled to expand our scope of work and better serve Enstrom clients,” said Bentley Thistlethwaite, Heli-Lynx’s director of maintenance.

News and issues about aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), covering all segments of the aviation industry; and modifications for aircraft and engines. Subjects include product support of aircraft, engines and avionics, MRO company mergers, acquisitions, announcements and personnel, Airworthiness Directives, Supplemental Type Certificate approvals and other topics.

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