Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star - Holland, Michigan - Static Aircraft Displays on Waymarking.com

Jet on display at the Park Township Airport in Holland, Michigan.

From Roadside America site:
Jet on a Stick
Outside the Park Township Airport (HLM), there is a T-33 jet aircraft used by various branches of the military from 1948 into the 1980s, first in combat, then as a pilot trainer.
[Michael C Green, 03/15/2018]
This Lockheed T-33 has a patriotic paint job and stars on its tail; in its early days the T-33 was known as the Shooting Star.
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From a Dutch website(translated):
In May 1957 this training device entered service with the US Navy. In the US Navy, the Buro Number (BuNo) received 143040.
Between 1974 and 1975, this case was briefly based at the US Navy Headquarters at Andrews Air Force Base (MD). Then it went mothballed and was stored in 1975 on the AMARC desert boneyard of Davis-Monthan in Arizona. On June 13, 1975, it actually abandoned military service.
After this, this device still had a civilian past. On April 9, 1976 it became the N40186 and was registered in the name of the Lansing Community College in (you don't expect it ...) Lansing (MI). Presumably it was a key box for training purposes at the Aviation Technology Center located there. We do not know whether this aircraft actually flew civil. It was only deregistered from the American aviation register on 3 May 2013. At that time it was high and wide on its pole in Holland.
In 2005 the Shooting Star was bought by Eric Fogg, a businessman from Holland. He donated the device to the local community. Twenty volunteers spent around 600 hours on the restoration of the coffin to prepare it for display. It was unveiled during the Air Affair experimental aircraft show on August 16, 2008. Since then, this device has been sitting on a pole for a long time.
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Type of Aircraft: (make/model): Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Tail Number: (S/N): 3040 Construction:: original aircraft Location (park, airport, museum, etc.): Park Township Airport inside / outside: outside Other Information:: Not listed Access restrictions: Not listed

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