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

The operators of the Black Canyon Jet Center FBO at Colorado’s Montrose Regional Airport have filed suit against the publicly owned airport, claiming officials withheld documents it requested during a recent RFP for a second FBO at the ski-country airport. The suit came days after the airport committee announced that Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Majestic Skies was the only one of the two respondents to meet the minimum FBO requirements. As per the FAA’s grant assurance policy, the county must enter into good-faith contract negotiations with the company. 
Black Canyon’s operators allege that the county authorities violated Colorado law by negotiating with businesses to establish another FBO at the airport before the RFP was issued. The county stated that it received an unsolicited letter of intent last June from a company looking to establish a rival FBO at the airport. That letter spurred the issuance of the RFP, which attracted the attention of providers such as Landmark Aviation, Atlantic Aviation, Million Air, Sheltair and Cutter Aviation, among others, but only two proposals. 
The lawsuit seeks to determine why documents such as the initial letter of intent and other information about who received the RFP, the submitted proposals and communications between the proposing companies and the county itself have not been made available.

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