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Honolulu Community College’s aviation maintenance program gets a lift from Hawaiian Airlines

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Student mechanic Caleb Yurong, is reflected in the chrome propellor nose cone of an airplane. For the first time in the roughly 80-year history of Honolulu Community College's aviation maintenance training program, Hawaiian Airlines is investing in it directly by diverting some of its paid employees to serve as instructors.
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Caeb Yurong, left, Taylor Taba, and Ronald Hata are student mechanics at HCC.
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Students Caleb Yurong, left, and Taylor Taba walk past planes.
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William Kinsley is a Hawaiian Airlines instructor.
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Jay Anderson is a Hawaiian Airlines instructor.
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Second-year student Ronald Hata, of Ewa Beach, has watched his entering class of 26 students dwindle down to 15. “You have to be very self motivated, or there’s just no way you’ll finish,” he said.
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Michael Willett teaches in HCC's aviation maintenance program.
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Michael Willett teaches in HCC's aviation maintenance program.
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Students Taylor Taba and Caleb Yurong inspect planes.
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Students Caleb Yurong, left, and Taylor Taba inspect a plane.
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Students Ronald Hata, left, and Ryan Roche work with an aircraft engine.

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