{"id":453,"date":"2024-12-15T10:59:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T10:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/?p=453"},"modified":"2024-12-15T18:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T18:57:05","slug":"raf-lyneham-gate-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/places\/raf-lyneham-gate-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Lyneham Gate Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in May 1987 I paid a visit to my local RAF station, RAF Lyneham, to take some photos on their newly installed gate guardian.<br> The De Havilland DH-106 Comet was built in the 1950&#8217;s and had it&#8217;s first test flight in early 1957, it was subsequently transferred 216 Squadron at RAF Lyneham, Wiltshire later in 1957 and was given the serial number of XK669 and named &#8220;Sagittarius&#8221;<br>I believe it was withdrawn from service in the mid 1960&#8217;s and transferred to Henlow museum. <br>It remained as gate guardian at RAF Lyneham until its closure in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1900\" height=\"955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DB-007-A-1.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Lyneham gate guardian 1987, DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]\" class=\"wp-image-452\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DB-006-A-1.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Lyneham gate guardian 1987, DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]\" class=\"wp-image-451\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DB-005-A-1.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Lyneham gate guardian 1987, DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]\" class=\"wp-image-450\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DB-004-A-1.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Lyneham gate guardian 1987, DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]\" class=\"wp-image-449\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DB-003-A-1.jpg\" alt=\"RAF Lyneham gate guardian 1987, DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]\" class=\"wp-image-448\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">DH Comet C2 at Lyneham [XK699]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May 1987 I paid a visit to my local RAF station, RAF Lyneham, to take some photos on their newly installed gate guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation","category-places","tag-aircraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipgphotography.com\/Wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}