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Bloodhound Missile outside the RAF Museum in london]] plinthed as a gate guardian at RAF Stafford ]]
A gate guardian is a withdrawn piece of equipment, often an Aircraft , Armoured Vehicle or Locomotive , mounted on a Plinth and used as a static display near to and "guarding" the main entrance to somewhere, especially a Military Base . Commonly, gate guardians outside Airbase s are decommissioned examples of aircraft that were once based there, or still are.

Examples of Gate Guardians around the world include the following:

In the United Kingdom:


All of the Spitfires and Hurricanes that now serve as gate guards are glass fibre replicas

Examples of Gate Guardians for other uses include outside Balinese Temples.