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

New York’s Sullivan County has issued a request for proposal (RFP) for an FBO provider at Sullivan County International Airport (KMSV). Located in the state’s Catskill region, near the New York/Pennsylvania border, the airport offers a 6,300-foot runway with a full-length parallel taxiway and is staffed from 7 am until 7 pm on weekdays.
Built at a cost of $24 million, the airport’s 15,000-sq-ft, two-story terminal opened in October and features a pilot lounge and 30-seat meeting room. A full-service restaurant with panoramic views of the Catskill Mountains will open later this year.
The Titan Aviation Fuels-supplied fuel farm includes 12,000-gallon jet-A and avgas tanks. It is served by a 5,000-gallon jet fuel truck and a 3,000-gallon avgas tanker.
“The airport is close to New York City, equipped to handle sizable corporate and cargo jets, and has nearly 600 acres available for development, all at a cost significantly lower than similar airports in the New York metro region, since it’s municipally owned,” Joe Perrello, Sullivan County legislator and chair of the legislature’s public works committee, told AIN. “With a brand-new terminal built sustainably of wood and heated/cooled geothermally, the airport is primed and ready for business.”
County officials will welcome interested operators to a site visit open house on July 29. The due date for RFP responses is August 21.

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