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A gate guardian or gate guard is a withdrawn piece of equipment, often an aircraft,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 At Heathrow Airport, that Concorde model has been replaced by a model of an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.[11] In September 2012, the Concorde was finally installed at the main entrance to the whole Brooklands site.[12]
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
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A gate guardian or gate guard is a withdrawn piece of equipment, often an aircraft,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 At Heathrow Airport, that Concorde model has been replaced by a model of an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.[11] In September 2012, the Concorde was finally installed at the main entrance to the whole Brooklands site.[12]
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