This article is about retired equipment displayed at military facilities. For deities associated with gates and doors, see Liminal deity. For a person who guards a gate, see security guard.
A gate guardian or gate guard is a withdrawn piece of equipment, often an aircraft, armoured vehicle, artillery piece, or locomotive, mounted on a plinth and used as a static display near to and forming a symbolic display of "guarding" the main entrance to a site, especially a military base.[1][2] Commonly, gate guardians outside airbases are decommissioned examples of aircraft that were once based there, or still are.[citation needed]
A 40% scale replica of Concorde had been located at the main road entrance to Heathrow Airport until March 2007, when it was moved to Brooklands Museum, Surrey. At Heathrow Airport, that Concorde model has been replaced by a model of an Airbus A380 in Emirates livery.[9] In September 2012, the Concorde was finally installed at the main entrance to the whole Brooklands site.[10]
A Phantom aircraft as the gate guardian at the entrance to the air terminal at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands. This was removed c. 2011
^"Concorde moved from Heathrow Airport to Brooklands Museum". Brooklands Museum. September 2012.
^"Out of Service British Military Aircraft". Demobbed. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^Regan, Pat (28 November 2017). "RAF Woodvale's new Gate Guardian – UPDATED". On The Spot (OTS) News Southport. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
^"Bradley – IAP, Connecticut". US Demobbed. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^ ab"McConnell AFB, Kansas". US Demobbed. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^ abc"Bradley – ANG, Connecticut". US Demobbed. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^"Langley CIA, Virginia". US Demobbed. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^"Brunswick – Glynco Jetport, Georgia". US Demobbed. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^"Prescott, Arizona". US Demobbed. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^"Hawker Siddeley-McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, s/n 162969 USN, c/n 512096". Aerial Visuals. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^"New location for Owatonna's Three T-38 Talon "Thunderbird" Jets - Static Aircraft Displays on Waymarking.com". www.waymarking.com. Retrieved 2022-03-09.
^"F-15A becomes signature aircraft at Museum of Aviation". Robins Air Force Base. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
^"Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2022-04-12.
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This article is about retired equipment displayed at military facilities For deities associated with gates and doors see Liminal deity For a person who guards a gate see security guard A gate guardian or gate guard is a withdrawn piece of equipment often an aircraft armoured vehicle artillery piece or locomotive mounted on a plinth and used as a static display near to and forming a symbolic display of guarding the main entrance to a site especially a military base 1 2 Commonly gate guardians outside airbases are decommissioned examples of aircraft that were once based there or still are citation needed F 104 at the Georgia Air National Guard Contents 1 Examples 1 1 Australia 1 2 Finland 1 3 Saudi Arabia 1 4 South Africa 1 5 Switzerland 1 6 United Kingdom 1 7 United States 2 Images 3 See also 4 ReferencesExamples EditThis article may contain indiscriminate excessive or irrelevant examples Please improve the article by adding more descriptive text and removing less pertinent examples See Wikipedia s guide to writing better articles for further suggestions March 2021 This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Gate guardian news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2021 Learn how and when to remove this template message Examples of gate guardians include the following Australia Edit In Australia gate guards are also often found outside Returned and Services League of Australia RSL clubs Finland Edit A MiG 21 formerly of the Finnish Air Force is on display at the entrance of Kuopio Airport Two T 34s at the Armoured Brigade Saudi Arabia Edit Lockheed L 1011 TriStar which operated under Saudia in the 1970s is placed on a tarmac next to the gate at Royal Saudi Air Force Museum in Riyadh South Africa Edit Atlas Impala at Air Force Base Ysterplaat Twin Eland Mk7 Armoured Cars at the SANDF Legal Satellite Office Air Force Base Swartkop Rooikat and M3 Stuart at 1 Special Service Battalion Tempe Base Eland Mk7 at School of Armour Tempe Base Switzerland Edit Lockheed F 104 Starfighter at Grenchen Airport in Grenchen Switzerland United Kingdom Edit 25 Pounder howitzers at 48 Regiment Royal Artillery Thorney Island and two on loan from the Honourable Artillery Company outside Admiralty House the official residence of the Commander Joint Forces Command at Northwood Headquarters Avro Shackleton at RAF St Mawgan BAC Jet Provost at RAF Linton on Ouse Bristol Bloodhound surface to air guided missile at Hudson House Territorial Army Centre Catford Home of 221 EOD V Field Squadron 101 City of London Engineer Regiment Royal Engineers C 47 Dakota at Headquarters 16 Air Assault Brigade Merville Barracks De Havilland Comet at RAF Lyneham FV434 Combat Recovery and Repair Vehicle and Gazelle Helicopter at Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College Gloster Javelin at Staverton Airport and XA634 RAF Leeming purchased by Gloucestershire Jet Age Museum in January 2015 3 Hawker Hunter at RAF Halton and WV396 at RAF Valley 4 Hawker Siddeley Harrier at MOD Stafford formerly RAF Stafford and RAF Wittering visible from the northbound A1 Hurricane replica at the former RAF North Weald with the markings of the No 56 Squadron RAF as flown by No 249 Squadron RAF pilot Thomas Ginger Neil during the Battle of Britain in September 1940 McDonnell Douglas Phantom at RAF Boulmer Panavia Tornado at Leuchars Station BAE Nimrod at RAF Kinloss SEPECAT Jaguar from the former RAF Coltishall now named Spirit of Coltishall and displayed at Norfolk County Council SEPECAT Jaguar at RAF Cosford installed in May 2017 but is outside the station headquarters so not visible from the main gate 5 Spitfire replica at Edinburgh Airport 6 Spitfire replica at RAF Benson Spitfire and Hurricane replicas at RAF Uxbridge Spitfire and Hurricane at RAF Biggin Hill 7 Panavia Tornado at RAF Marham Panavia Tornado F3 at RAF Leeming replaced Gloster Javelin in 2015 8 A 40 scale replica of Concorde had been located at the main road entrance to Heathrow Airport until March 2007 when it was moved to Brooklands Museum Surrey At Heathrow Airport that Concorde model has been replaced by a model of an Airbus A380 in Emirates livery 9 In September 2012 the Concorde was finally installed at the main entrance to the whole Brooklands site 10 Chinook helicopter RAF Odiham BAE Hawk T1A XX247 at RAF Woodvale 11 12 Avro Vulcan at RAF WaddingtonUnited States Edit Bell UH 1H Iroquois s n 70 16218 at Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks Connecticut 13 Boeing B 47E Stratojet s n 53 4213 at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita Kansas 14 Boeing KC 135A Stratotanker s n 55 3118 at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita Kansas 1 KC 135 City of Renton 14 Convair F 102A Delta Dagger s n 56 1264 at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Windsor Locks Connecticut 15 Fairchild Republic A 10A Thunderbolt II s n 79 0103 at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Windsor Locks Connecticut 15 Lockheed A 12 s n 60 6931 at George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley Virginia 16 Lockheed LC 130 at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Schenectady New York Lockheed F 104C Starfighter s n 56 0919 at Georgia Air National Guard in Brunswick Georgia 17 Lockheed F 104N Starfighter registration N811NA at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Prescott Arizona 18 McDonnell Douglas AV 8B Harrier II BuNo 162969 at MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock North Carolina 19 Three Northrop T 38 Talons painted to resemble aircraft formerly flown by the US Air Force Thunderbirds at Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna Minnesota 20 North American F 100D Super Sabre s n 55 3805 at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Windsor Locks Connecticut 15 F 15A Eagle tailflash RG resides facing State Route 247 in front of the Museum of Aviation and serving the Russell Parkway gate in Warner Robins Georgia placed during 2019 21 Bell UH 1H Iroquois at Helena Regional Airport 22 Images Edit nbsp RAF Bristol Bloodhound missile outside the RAF Museum in London nbsp MiG 17 at Kubinka Air Base Russia nbsp Kingston Airport Canadian Air Force nbsp 1 Tank Regiment Royal Armoured Corps nbsp Fort Knox US Army nbsp Tempe Base South African Army nbsp F 105 Thunderchief at Arnold Gate Bolling Air Force Base Washington D C nbsp A Phantom aircraft as the gate guardian at the entrance to the air terminal at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands This was removed c 2011See also EditBradyll locomotive References Edit A 6 Intruder A 6E Gate Guardian Wikimapia A 7 Corsair II A 7 Gate Guardian USN NAS Atlanta Wikimapia Atlanta Georgia Retrieved 2009 11 10 BBC News Gloucestershire Jet Age Museum buys Gloster Javelin BBC Online Retrieved 20 January 2015 Gate Guardian RAF Valley accessed 2009 11 10 Marshall Chris ed Autumn 2017 Cosford s Gate Guardian Cosford Grapevine Rushden Forces publishing 25 OCLC 751026701 Edinburgh Airport Spitfire saved by devoted pilot JPIMedia Edinburgh Evening News 20 May 2014 Retrieved 12 April 2019 Fundraising drive begins to replace rotting gate guardians Newsshopper RAF Biggin Hill UK September 12 2009 Retrieved 2009 11 10 Iconic Tornado returns to guard the gates of Leeming www raf mod uk Retrieved 27 August 2017 HEATHROW MODEL MOVE CONCORDE SST 2007 Concorde moved from Heathrow Airport to Brooklands Museum Brooklands Museum September 2012 Out of Service British Military Aircraft Demobbed Retrieved 14 October 2019 Regan Pat 28 November 2017 RAF Woodvale s new Gate Guardian UPDATED On The Spot OTS News Southport Retrieved 14 October 2019 Bradley IAP Connecticut US Demobbed Retrieved 29 August 2018 a b McConnell AFB Kansas US Demobbed Retrieved 29 August 2018 a b c Bradley ANG Connecticut US Demobbed Retrieved 29 August 2018 Langley CIA Virginia US Demobbed Retrieved 29 August 2018 Brunswick Glynco Jetport Georgia US Demobbed Retrieved 29 August 2018 Prescott Arizona US Demobbed Retrieved 29 August 2018 Hawker Siddeley McDonnell Douglas AV 8B Harrier II s n 162969 USN c n 512096 Aerial Visuals Retrieved 29 August 2018 New location for Owatonna s Three T 38 Talon Thunderbird Jets Static Aircraft Displays on Waymarking com www waymarking com Retrieved 2022 03 09 F 15A becomes signature aircraft at Museum of Aviation Robins Air Force Base Retrieved 6 January 2020 Google Maps Google Maps Retrieved 2022 04 12 nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gate guardians military monuments Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gate guardian amp oldid 1169156535, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
