Curt Epstein
Senior Editor

A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined AIN in 2007, Curt came to the publication 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 AIN sister publication 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  Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.

Before joining AIN, Curt worked with 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.

Latest from Curt Epstein

Accidents

Factual Report: Distracted Pilot Makes Gear-up Landing

Socata TBM700, Memphis, Tenn., Jan.
Accidents

Factual Report: King Air Crashes on Takeoff

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Punta Chivato, Mexico, Nov.
Accidents

Preliminary Reports: MU-2 Strikes Fence on Runway Excursion

Mitsubishi MU-2B-26A, Princeton, Ky., April 3, 2010–The Part 91 personal IFR flight ended with the turboprop twin substantially damaged, when the pi
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Gulfstream Hits Fuel Truck After Missing Taxiway

Gulfstream II, Seattle, Wa., April 8, 2010–The twinjet sustained structural damage to its left wing when it collided with a fuel truck while taxiing
Accidents

Preliminary Report: S92 Sheds Panel in Flight

Sikorsky S-92A, Galliano, La., March 22, 2010–While operating in wind gusts of up to 21 knots, the helicopter was damaged when an environmental cont
Accidents

Preliminary Report: King Air Damaged After Gear Collapse

Hawker Beechcraft King Air A90, De Kalb, Ill., March 2, 2010–Owned by Eagle Air Transport, the King Air sustained substantial damage after its left
Accidents

Preliminary Report: EMS Helicopter Crashes Minutes from Base

Eurocopter AS350B3, Brownsville, Tenn., March 25, 2010–While returning to base on a Part 91 positioning flight after delivering a patient, the Memph
Accidents

Preliminary Report: King Air Suffers Damage in Hard Landing

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, Sioux City, Iowa, Jan.

People in Aviation: June 2010

Maria Sastre was appointed COO of Signature Flight Support’s global operations.

Deliveries hit five-year low, but billings rise in 1Q/10

General aviation deliveries experienced an overall drop in the first quarter from the same period last year, according to numbers released last month by th
Aircraft

Grob Prototype Crash Caused by Stabilizer Failure

The November 2006 fatal crash of the Grob G180A SPn prototype was caused by failure of the twinjet’s horizontal stabilizer, according to the final report r

Stabilizer failure caused crash of Grob prototype

The 2006 fatal crash of the Grob G180A SPn midsize jet prototype was caused by failure of the twinjet’s horizontal stabilizer, according to the final repor
Aircraft

Genav Aircraft Shipments Down, Billings Up in 1Q10

The first-quarter numbers from the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) released yesterday show an overall 15-percent drop in general aviation
Accidents

Final Report: Lack of procedure blames for takeoff blowout

Bombardier Learjet 55, Casper, Wyo., March 17, 2009–The flight crew’s failure to follow manufacturer’s emergency procedures for a high-ene
Accidents

Final Report: Citation gear retractions remain a mystery

Cessna Citation 560XL, White Plains, N.Y., April 15, 2008–The Board was unable to determine the cause of the uncommanded landing gear retraction tha
Accidents

Factual Report: King Air makes gear-up landing

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B200, St.
Accidents

Factual Report: Weather eyed in fatal Gulf helicopter crash

Bell 206L-4, Sabine Pass, Texas, Dec.
Accidents

Factual Report: Citation strikes tractor in runway incursion

Cessna Citation 550, Reading, Pa., Aug.
Accidents

Factual Report: Engine damage forces emergency landing

Cessna Citation 525A, Stuttgart, Germany, March 1, 2010–The German-registered CJ2 was climbing after takeoff from Stuttgart in VMC, en route to Brem
Accidents

Factual Report: C99 hits building in Portugal

Hawker Beechcraft C99, Évora, Portugal, Aug.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Eurocopter crashes in Arizona

Eurocopter EC135, Cave Creek, Ariz.
Accidents

Preliminary Report: Gulfstream loses window in flight

Gulfstream III, Farmingdale, N.Y., March 10, 2010–Soon after takeoff from Republic Airport (FRG), while climbing through 35,000 msl en route to Stua

People in Aviation: May 2010

Randy Groom, formerly president of Hawker Beechcraft’s global customer service and support and its Beechcraft division and founder of general aviati
Accidents

FAA Denies Sanctions against Amazon Midair Pilots

The FAA has rejected a request from Brazilian politicians to revoke the pilot certificates of the two U.S.

CAN keeps flying patients, despite slowdown in bizav

For a charity whose existence depends upon the health of the business aviation industry, the recent downturn could have proven disastrous for Corporate Ang
Regulations and Government

New LASP proposal set to travel

The Transportation Security Administration has completed the revision of the large aircraft security program (LASP) and the supplemental notice of proposed
Engines

PWC expands its bizav engine series

Despite last year’s cancellation of the Cessna Columbus program, which would have been the launch customer for Pratt & Whitney Canada’s PurePower PW800 ser
Aircraft

Viking nears EASA approval for Twin Otter Series 400

Viking Air is close to achieving European and Canadian certification of its new Twin Otter 400, having made a first flight with the revamped, 21-century ve
Training and Workforce

European training sites boost business at FSI

Despite the economic downturn that has dampened the aircraft delivery schedules for most airframers over the past year, FlightSafety International’s two Eu

NTSB's most wanted list gets update

In its annual review of most wanted transportation safety improvements, the NTSB updated its list of items requiring rapid attention and added a new urgent