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What are the restrictions to fly out there? Any designated areas?

It's a beautiful place. I known this cause Joslin music.

What drone is that?

I grew up across the street from the park. It was completed in 1976. That M-41 used to be parked at the Plano Community College (now gone) on Custer Rd, just north of Ironside Dr. The small building north of the church is all that remains of the college. The tank was parked adjacent to the road between the buildings. When it was moved to Liberty Park, it was originally left unlocked & without the ladders that were later welded to the hull. Yes, it was the best piece of playground equipment in the park. My brothers and I would get inside of it and lock the hatches from within. The engine was gone, but the rest was intact and functional. We would sit for hours waiting on some unsuspecting kid to show up (sometimes with a parent) and get on the hull. I'm sure during the summer it was well over 120 degrees in there, we didn't care. At the time, all the periscopes were functional, so we had 360 degree vision of the tank from within. When another kid (or kids) got on the tank, we'd stay real quiet. They always liked to get out on the gun tube and sit on it like a teeter totter. As soon as they got seated on the tube, we'd drop the barrel, causing them to fall off, the quickly raise it back to where it was. Sometimes the kids would get on the hull and hang out. Our remedy was to traverse the turret and either knock them off, or scare them off. Sometimes we'd have parents knocking on the sides asking if anybody was in there. Obviously we never answered. A few years later, they welded the hatches shut (including the one under the driver's seat) and put the ladders on it. Today it looks about the same, except some of the periscopes are busted and or painted over. It would be a great restoration project as the inside should be as it was all those years ago.

Tanks and children….the way God intended.

There was a half track at a city park when i was a kid.

Wait. This park has an M41 Walker light tank. God Bless America!!!!

The Gatorade is part of the park

They dare neglect armor

Best army recruiting ever. Get them while they are young.

Now that I'd want to take home from the playground. Lol.

I’m jealous I don’t have a deactivated tank at my playground

Tonk

Swords to Plows.

AmeriGUN... We let our children play with decommissioned tanks.

That’s pretty damn awesome

Wow, never realized how tiny M41 was...

The M41 Walker Bulldog is what cought my eye. I have one in 1/35 scale sitting on my work bench as we speak! very cool!

Tank

i feel bad for the bulldog

A giant hunk of steel baking in the Texas sun becomes a play thing. Reminds me of my childhood and the 30ft high metal slide.

Me running over children to be the first one on the tank play set.

I remember a slide in a San Francisco park made out of an old jet with the center line intake being the exit to start the top of the slide. The cockpit was modified to crawl into. I think it was an F-100.

Wtf!!! Where was this when I was a kid?????

I would have flipped my shit having an M48 in my playground! wAy tOo kEwL for words!

Why dont we have this in france ! I just want to leavemy country for the land of freedom !

Thank you!

What lunacy to put a tank in a childrens playground.

Rest in peace tank

Thats an M41 Walker Bulldog light tank.

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Nice shots of the college