The last of the Marine Corps’ venerable AV-8B Harrier II fighter jets will be retired in June, to be replaced by the F-35B.

The “Harrier Sundown Celebration” will be hosted by the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point from June 1-4.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marines will rebrand a squadron as pilots switch to the F-35B Lightning II. The transition from the AV-8B Harrier to the F-35B ...

The Marine Corps is saying goodbye to a decades-old jet, and Marines who work on its engine will soon enter the fleet for the last time. The AV-8B Harrier II jet has been in service since the 1980s, ...

This story has been corrected. The Marine Corps’ oldest flying squadron recently took another step toward the service’s retirement of a venerable vertical takeoff aircraft to make way for its ...

The Hawker Siddeley Kestrel was the aviation world’s first jump jet, a Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (or V/STOL) aircraft, a milestone in aviation history. Originally known as the P.1127, it was ...

Maj. Nicholas Tyson, an AV-8B Harrier II pilot, takes a seat in the cockpit of his aircraft at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, June 18, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Elias E. Pimentel ...

Marine Corps Sgt. Brooke Roper, a fixed-wing power plants mechanic instructor at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Cherry Point, supervises Pfc. Hunter Dority, Lance Cpl. Justin ...

The Harrier II is a single- or two-seat, single-engine ground-attack aircraft now out of production. Through 1998, Boeing/McDonnell Douglas and BAE built 428 Harrier II V/STOL aircraft. AV-8B Harrier ...