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

California’s Sacramento Mather Airport (KMHR) now has another service provider with the opening of the Mather Jet Center, which is under the same ownership as maintenance provider Mather Aviation. Victor Cushing is a 40-plus-year veteran in aviation maintenance with facilities at both KMHR and Modesto City–County Airport (KMOD), while partners Matt Bosco and Dan Kimmel are owners of Modesto Jet Center at KMOD.
Located within the Mather Aviation maintenance building, a 100,000-sq-ft hangar that once housed B-52s at the former air force base, the FBO—the newest addition to the Avfuel-branded dealer network—occupies 2,000 sq ft of terminal space on the ramp side of the building. It includes a passenger lobby, pilot lounge, and conference room, with onsite car rental.
Despite the size of the Mather Aviation facility—which also serves as a home to its Part 145 maintenance and avionics facility—the company anticipates building additional hangars because it is virtually at capacity with based, transient, and maintenance clients.
With its 11,300-foot main runway, KMHR is a popular tech stop for aircraft en route to Hawaii, and it is now the only Sacramento-area airport with a choice of fuel providers.
“This partnership marks exciting industry growth, and we look forward to expanding our services within the West Coast market,” said Joel Hirst, Avfuel’s senior v-p of sales. “We greatly appreciate this opportunity to partner with Mather Jet Center and look forward to collaborating with its team to support the needs of the general aviation community.”

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