The Hawker Siddeley Kestrel was the aviation world’s first jump jet, a Vertical/Short Take-Off and Landing (or V/STOL) ...

Pilot James Coppersmith flew the Harrier from the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake located in California’s Mojave Desert, ...

The AV-8B Harrier, known informally as the Harrier jump jet, is the latest iteration in a series of VSTOL aircraft that was first developed in the 1960s.

While a few may think that the Harrier is an American jet, especially as the U.S. Marine Corps has a fleet, it's actually the British that started its development in the 1960s.

ATWATER, Calif. (KFSN) -- A special delivery arrived at Castle Air Museum in Atwater on Monday. A Harrier fighter jet landed as crowds gathered to watch. The Marines are retiring the unique fleet ...

As an "interested observer" of military aviation, I beg to differ with your Jan. 9 editorial, "Justify Harrier or Drop It," on the AV-8 Harrier jet.

CHERRY POINT, N.C., Feb. 4 -- The Marine Corps today suspended all Harrier jet missions at Cherry Point Air Station pending an investigation into a crash that killed two aviators. The suspension ...

The Harrier jet was coming in for a landing at Marine Corps Air Station-Yuma when it crashed and burst into flames about a mile from the base, Marine Cpl. Michael Nease said. "I was just sitting here.