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

Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport (KBKV) in Florida will receive an additional 12,000-sq-ft hangar next month as part of a $3 million development by aviation services provider IQ Worldwide.
Construction on the project—begun several years ago on the ACS ramp on the north side of the field—has been interrupted by severe weather on several occasions, according to company president Victor Rosales. Finished last year, the first 12,000-sq-ft hangar with a 24-foot-high door can accommodate up to a super-midsize jet. Meanwhile, the soon-to-be-completed hangar will have a 28-foot-high door, enabling it to shelter ultra-long-range business jets. Both are equipped with offices and restrooms.
While KBKV has a years-long waiting list for hangar space, Rosales hopes to attract an MRO provider as a tenant for the new structure. He is now in the permitting phase to increase the size of the complex with an additional 20,000-sq-ft hangar including an even higher door height.
The airport has a 7,000-foot main runway—soon to be expanded to 8,000 feet—as well as a secondary 5,000-foot runway and a control tower. Rosales foresees the development as spurring growth at KBKV, similar to that experienced recently at nearby Lakeland Linder International Airport (KLAL), midway between Tampa and Orlando.
“Eight to 10 years ago, Lakeland was a ghost town,” he told AIN. “Right now, Brooksville is looking the same way.”

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