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

Spirit Sky Club—a $13 million, 28-hangar private members’ community for aviators—will hold the grand opening of its first phase of construction on Friday at Missouri’s Spirit of St. Louis Airport (KSUS).&nbsp;According to its developers, the eight-acre complex on the north end of KSUS directly targets a hangar capacity gap on the field. KSUS had a hangar waitlist of more than 150 parties at the project’s groundbreaking a year ago.
“The model is also a bit different from most of what’s going up around the country—it’s not an FBO-attached or operator-leased build, but a country-club-style community of approximately 30 owner-operator members storing aircraft ranging from Cirrus single-engine pistons up through Cessna Citation light jets,” said company founding partner Alex Martin.
With that focus on smaller aircraft, each 3,472-sq-ft private hangar has an 18-foot-high door and is insulated and climate-controlled, with private bathrooms and 24/7 security. The company has not yet detailed further phases of development.
“What we tried to do with Spirit Sky Club is build for the way owner-operators actually use their aircraft today—not just storage, but a place they want to spend time,” Martin told AIN.

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