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

Duncan Aviation has added a full-service battery shop to its satellite repair facility at Scottsdale Airport (KSDL) in Arizona.
With the ability to provide main-ship and emergency battery maintenance services on units from top manufacturers including Aero Design, Concorde, Saft, Marathon, Securaplane, and L3 Harris, the location has separate rooms for testing and working on different battery types including absorbed glass-mat (AGM), Nickel-cadmium (NiCad), and NZ batteries such as those contained in the Honeywell NZ-2000 and IAC-600/800 Nav and IAC computers.
Among the services offered are battery replacements and restorations, 100-hour inspections, deep cycle and capacity checks, battery re-blocks and bench tests, and new unit sales.
“We are very excited to respond to the many customer requests we have received to add battery maintenance to our services available through our Scottsdale satellite,” Matt Nelson, Duncan’s enterprise satellite manager, told AIN. “This is a new addition to Scottsdale, joining those in Bedford, Massachusetts; Atlanta, Georgia; St. Paul, Minnesota; Kansas City, Missouri; and Seattle, Washington.”

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Duncan Adds Full-service Battery Shop at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona

Located in Duncan’s satellite repair station at KSDL

Duncan has upgraded its Scottsdale Airport satellite repair facility with the addition of a battery shop.

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