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

After more than a year of construction, Galaxy FBO is in full operation at its new facility at Lone Star Executive Airport in Conroe, Texas. Galaxy FBO had been providing service at the location since 2006. In 2012 Black Forest Ventures purchased the company and undertook construction of the new complex. The terminal occupies the entire 17,000-sq-ft first floor of a three-story building and includes lounges for passengers and crews, and an A/V-equipped conference room that can seat 100 people. The second floor houses a pair of conference rooms as well as tenant offices and a satellite facility for sister company aircraft charter management provider Wing Aviation. The third floor features the Black Walnut Café, a casual restaurant serving breakfast and lunch, with an outdoor patio that overlooks the apron and Runway 14-32. A pair of 50,000-sq-ft hangars that can accommodate aircraft the size of a G650 round out the new 15-acre complex. One of the hangars is intended for use as based and transient aircraft storage, while the company expects to lease the other to a private flight department. The Phillips-66 branded dealer also offers a 17,000-sq-ft arrival canopy and more than nine acres of ramp parking with tie-downs embedded in concrete.
The airport is undergoing a runway extension project to increase the length of 14-32 to 7,500 feet from 6,000. That project is scheduled for completion in June. Construction of a new U.S Customs facility is expected to begin later this year.

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