June 4, 2013: The U.S. Marine Corps is now preparing to upgrade many of their 140 AV-8B Harrier jet fighters to keep them in service, at least until 2030 (instead of 2027). This is because the ...

Your series on the Harrier aircraft was superb (Dec. 15-18). You have poignantly brought to our attention a situation that begs for attention. As I read about some of the failures, I realized that at ...

The AV-8B Harrier is now nearly retired—but its mission profile will live on in the F-35B Lightning II, which shares many of the same capabilities.

On Dec. 15, 2010, sixteen Harriers took off from RAF Cottesmore for a farewell formation flight marking the end to 41 years of British Harrier operations. Originally scheduled to remain in service ...

MCAS CHERRY POINT, N.C. (WNCT) — It was the end of an era at the hangar at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, where the Marine Corp deactivated Attack Squadron 203 as it makes room to bring in the ...

The following crashes have occurred at or near Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point or involved AV-8 Harrier aircraft assigned to Cherry Point's 2nd Marine Air Group. The following crashes have ...

Soon after graduating from high school in Alton, Illinois, in the spring of 1970, an 18-year-old Teddy Sigite received a letter stating that Uncle Sam had plans to bring him into the military through ...

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. William Mahoney had a problem on June 7. His front landing gear had malfunctioned and he still needed to land his AV-8B Harrier on the flight deck of the USS Bataan. In the ...

If you’re driving along I-5 between San Clemente and Oceanside next week, don’t be shocked if you see an unfamiliar type of Marine Corps aircraft cavorting near the freeway. Marine Attack Squadron 513 ...

(Matt Hale) "Although I had spent many years as a photographer staring at countless Harriers," writes Tim McLelland in his new book Harrier, "the aircraft takes on a rather different appearance when ...