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

Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE) introduced its newest hangar yesterday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by state and local officials. The $16.3 million, 54,000-sq-ft Hangar 11 that can accommodate aircraft up to a Gulfstream G650 brings the <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2019-07-16/fbo-profile-lehigh-valley-aviation-services">airport-operated FBO</a> to more than 250,000 sq ft of hangar space. This project marks&nbsp;the first hangar addition at the Eastern Pennsylvania airport, which is currently home to 137 aircraft, since 2006.

 


“If you search the Northeast corridor, hangar space is extremely limited, “ said Thomas Stoudt, executive director of the Lehigh-Northampton Airport Authority, which received an $8.8 million grant from the PennDoT Bureau of Aviation to complete the new structure. “We are confident that Hangar 11 delivers a competitive advantage in attracting new tenants that strengthens economic growth within the Lehigh Valley.”

 


“During very challenging times in aviation across the country and especially in Pennsylvania due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unveiling of Hangar 11 is an encouraging story that still shows the continued strong economic growth at [ABE],” added Anthony McCloskey, director of the state’s DoT.

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