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

Pryor Field Airport Authority (PFAA), which operates the lone FBO at Pryor Field Regional Airport (KDCU) in Decatur, Alabama, has added a maintenance operation for general and business aviation aircraft. The new division has employees with more than 75 years of combined aviation maintenance experience providing a range of services, including scheduled and unscheduled maintenance; inspections; avionics installations, upgrades, service, and repair; and AOG and emergency maintenance support for business jets and turboprops, as well as piston airplanes.
KDCU is located between Huntsville and Decatur, Alabama, in the heart of North Alabama’s rapidly growing aviation and aerospace corridor, with convenient access to Interstate 65.
“Our goal is simple: provide aircraft owners and operators with a maintenance partner they can depend on and get their aircraft back in the air as quickly as possible,” said PFAA CEO Adam Fox, adding that pilots and operators shouldn’t have to look several states away or wait months to find someone who can take care of their aircraft. “We have assembled an experienced team, and we are ready for customers to start bringing us their maintenance needs.”

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