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

Expanding into the Minneapolis FBO market, Exclusive Aerospace, an affiliate of Fargo Jet Center, recently acquired the assets of Premier Jet Center, one of five service providers at Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie, Minn. Located in the southwest corner of the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, Flying Cloud Airport is one of the main corporate airports serving this market. While Exclusive Aerospace plans to continue to operate Premier Jet Center under its current name and keep the present staff in place, it also intends to make significant investment in the FBO. 
Fargo Jet Center, based at Hector International Airport, provides aircraft charter, management sales and maintenance, offers avionics sales, service and installation, operates a Cessna-certified flight school and is an Avfuel dealer.

Minneapolis Area FBO Changes Hands But Not Name

Exclusive Aerospace recently acquired the assets of Premier Jet Center.

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