Texas Maintenance Trainees Hone Skills on a GII
Charles Palmer donated the aircraft to TCC’s aviation program after its years at Halliburton Company.
The Gulfstream GII gets prepped for its final flight from Ellington Field in Houston. (Photo: Mike Harbour)
The Gulfstream GII gets prepped for its final flight from Ellington Field in Houston. (Photo: Mike Harbour)

Aircraft maintenance students at Tarrant County College (TCC) in Texas will be able to work on a vintage Gulfstream GII, thanks to the generosity of oil industry executive Charles Palmer, who had operated the aircraft since acquiring it from the Halliburton Group in 2004. As it reached the end of its useful life, the GII had been facing the prospect of being scrapped this year, but Palmer, also a philanthropist, decided it could still deliver some value in helping train a new generation of business aviation mechanics.

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