(Image: Clemens Vasters, cc-4.0)
The United States Marine Corps still flies the venerable AV-8B Harrier II, though a number of retired airframes have found their way into the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona over the years. We’ve also reported on the UK’s former Harrier force, which in 2011 was controversially sold to the US as spare parts for the price of a single F-35. The gaunt shells of its aircraft now lie gutted in the desert.
But there are other, earlier generations Harriers at Davis-Monthan too, which have languished in the desert for decades. One of them is TAV-8A serial number 159383, which was manufactured by British aviation company Hawker Siddeley for the USMC. The twin seat trainer version of the vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft (pictured above) served with Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 before being retired to the Boneyard (officially known as AMARG) in 1987.
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