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 Marine Corps will train the final two new AV-8B Harrier pilots in 2024 as part of a long-term transition to the F-35 Lightning II. The transition from the AV-8B Harrier and F/A-18C/D Hornet jets ...

The final two AV-8B Harrier II pilots with the U.S. Marine Corps have finished their training, the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing announced Monday. Capts. Joshua Corbett and Sven Jorgensen on Friday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marine Attack Squadron 231 fly AV-8B Harrier IIs in formation during the squadron’s final flight ceremony at Marine Corps Air ...

The Marine Corps will soon rebrand a storied aviation squadron as its pilots switch to a new jet designed for next-level warfare. Amid ongoing changes to the Corps, the North Carolina-based Marine ...

A chapter of Marine Corps history is set to close this summer as flight operations with the AV-8B Harrier II conclude in June ...

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 ...

A storied AV-8B Harrier — a fighter plane that can lift off vertically — is the most recent historical aircraft delivered to an old Marine Corps Airstation El Toro hangar at the Irvine Great Park that ...

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 ...

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 is part of modernization. The change is part of service-wide plans to ...