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

While the number of business jet deliveries and overall industry billings continued to slide in the first quarter of 2012, there was a minor retrenchment for the turboprop segment, according to numbers released by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA).
For the first quarter of the year, OEMs handed over 122 business jets, a 4.7 percent decrease from the 128 it delivered in same period last year. However, the number of turboprop deliveries rose by two to 63, representing 3.3-percent gain year-over-year. With a decrease from $3.68 billion to $3.39 billion, billings for the industry saw an 8 percent drop from the first three months of last year.
“The first-quarter shipment data shows mixed performance across the segments,” said GAMA president and CEO Pete Bunce, who views a global lack of available financing as a continuing concern for the industry. “An important step forward would be for the U.S. Congress to quickly reauthorize the Export-Import Bank. The lending authority of the bank spurs sales, which are essential to revitalizing the manufacturing sector.”

GAMA’s 1Q12 Numbers Show Turboprop Rebound

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