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

Adding to its locations in New York (Long Island MacArthur Airport) and New Orleans (Lakefront Airport), Hawthorne Global Aviation Services will officially open its first newly built FBO this month, at Chicago Executive Airport. Construction began a year ago on the Shell-branded facility, which will compete with Signature and Atlantic. The airport is home to 100 private jets and turboprops, and sees 90,000 operations a year. The Hawthorne location features a 10,000-sq-ft terminal with a fireplace-equipped passenger lounge, a 10-seat A/V-capable conference room, pilots’ lounge with theater-style seating, large-screen TV, flight-planning room and complimentary Wi-Fi throughout the facility. The FBO’s 30,000-sq-ft heated hangar can accommodate aircraft up to the size of a G650.


“We built this facility to meet the growing demand for premier corporate and business aviation services in the Chicago area, a vibrant top-three general aviation market in the United States,” said Hawthorne president and CEO Steven Levesque. “This FBO broadens our geographic footprint of FBOs throughout the U.S. to include the largest market in the Midwest.”

Hawthorne Global Opens Third FBO

Purpose-built facility at Chicago Executive joins two others in the company’s stable.

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