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gate guardian

{{Short description|Symbolic guardian at a military facility}}

{{About|retired equipment displayed at military facilities|deities associated with gates and doors|Liminal deity|a person who guards a gate|security guard}}

File:F-104 GANG.jpg

A gate guardian or gate guard is a withdrawn piece of equipment, often an aircraft, armoured vehicle, artillery piece, or locomotive, mounted on a plinth and used as a static display near to and forming a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.{{cite web|url=http://www.wikimapia.org/8107917/A-6E-Gate-Guardian |title=A-6 Intruder (A-6E) Gate Guardian|website=Wikimapia}}{{cite web|website=Wikimapia|url=http://www.wikimapia.org/8107940/A-7-Gate-Guardian |title=A-7 Corsair II (A-7) Gate Guardian USN NAS Atlanta|location=Atlanta, Georgia|access-date= 2009-11-10}} Commonly, gate guardians outside airbases are decommissioned examples of aircraft that were once based there, or still are.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

Examples

File:The Alconbury gate guardian - geograph.org.uk - 6371811.jpg, as demonstrated with this 100% scale model F-5E Tiger, which serves as the gate guardian for RAF Alconbury, England.]]

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Examples of gate guardians include the following:

=Australia=

In Australia, gate guards are also often found outside Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) clubs. These are usually artillery pieces such as 25 pounders and 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, but the RSL club at Mulwala has a Douglas Dakota transport aircraft and Dandenong RSL club has a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter. Several aircraft are on display at the gate of RAAF Base Wagga, as part of a small adjacent museum. RAAF Base Edinburgh has a Lockheed P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft and a Leopard 1 tank as gate guardians, reflecting its use as both an air force and an army base. RAAF Base Darwin has two Bristol Bloodhound surface-to-air missiles as gate guardians.

=Finland=

=Malaysia=

|website=malaysiandefence.com|date=8 January 2024|url=https://www.malaysiandefence.com/first-fulcrum-as-gate-guard/|access-date=15 June 2024}}

= Saudi Arabia =

= South Africa =

= Switzerland =

= United Kingdom =

= United States =

| url = https://www.i-f-s.nl/news/knoxville-f-104-renewed-pole/| title = Knoxville F-104 completely restored| date = 26 April 2016| publisher = International F-104 Society| access-date = 8 December 2023}}

  • A Cessna 310 flown by actor Jimmy Stewart, was restored and placed as a gate guardian to Indiana County-Jimmy Stewart Airport in Pennsylvania, USA.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-16 |title='Jimmy' Stewart's Cessna 310 points the way to Pennsylvania airport |url=https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2020/november/16/jimmy-stewarts-cessna-310-points-the-way-to-pennsylvania-airport |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=www.aopa.org |language=en}}

Images

Image:Bloodhound SAM2.jpg|RAF Bristol Bloodhound missile outside the RAF Museum in London

Image:237 RED Mikoyan Mig-17 Russian Airforce (7387568310).jpg|MiG-17 at Kubinka Air Base, Russia

File:Noorduyn AT-16 Harvard II, Canada - Air Force AN0931637.jpg|Kingston Airport (Canadian Air Force)

File:Royal Tank Regiment and Royal Engineers workshops, Sack Hill, Warminster - geograph.org.uk - 962286.jpg|1 Tank Regiment (Royal Armoured Corps)

Image:Fort_Knox_tank.jpg|Fort Knox (US Army)

File:Gateguardian3.png|Tempe Base (South African Army)

File:F-105 Thunderchief and DIA HQ, Washington DC.jpg|F-105 Thunderchief at Arnold Gate, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington, D.C.

File:A retired Royal Air Force (RAF) F-4M Phantom FGR.2 aircraft formerly of No. 1435 Flight RAF as the gate guardian at the entrance to the air terminal at Mount Pleasant Complex in the Falkland Islands, 2007.jpg|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 {{circa|2011}}

See also

References

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