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

Aircraft brokerage Aerocor, which specializes in preowned very light jet sales, experienced another strong year in 2022. The Nevada-based company completed 43 sales transactions last year, 30 percent of which were completed in the fourth quarter.
The company dominated the Eclipse 500 market with its representation of either the buyer or seller in more than 70 percent of the transactions in the second half of the year. Over the past few years, the company has offered several value-added services for&nbsp;Eclipse 500 operators, including an aircraft&nbsp;training program&nbsp;combined with FlightData’s maintenance tracking and performance analyzer and the recently-updated Eclipse quick reference application.
Last year, Aerocor also saw growth in its market share of the Beechcraft Premier I/IA as it represented clients in 15 percent of the&nbsp;type’s transactions.
“We have put a lot of effort into developing informational materials for the benefit of Premier owners and potential buyers,” said Jens Personius, the company’s manager of client services, adding that they are now beginning to see the positive effects reliable and transparent information can have on the fleet’s liquidity. “Prior to publication of our 'Premier Buyers Guide, New Owner Guide,' and quarterly market updates, there was very little information available about these aircraft.”

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