{"id":22238480,"date":"2026-09-14T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/av-8b-harrier-last-usmc-airframe-pensacola-museum-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T09:32:11","slug":"av-8b-harrier-last-usmc-airframe-pensacola-museum-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/es\/av-8b-harrier-last-usmc-airframe-pensacola-museum-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"AV-8B Harrier: The Last One Built for the Marines Goes to a Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>There was no flypast for this one. No water cannon, no speeches, no crowd on the ramp at Cherry Point. Marines took the wings off it, pulled the classified boxes out, put it on a flatbed and drove it to Florida.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The aircraft is BuNo 166288, modex WP-18, and it is the last <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/harrier-jump-jet\/\">AV-8B Harrier II<\/a> Boeing ever built for the United States Marine Corps. Delivered in September 2003, it flew more than 5,800 hours from amphibious assault ships and expeditionary strips before ending its career with Marine Attack Squadron 223, the Bulldogs, at MCAS Cherry Point. It is now at the National Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola. Its Rolls-Royce F402-RR-408 has been pulled and will go on a stand of its own, because the engine is really the whole story of the aeroplane.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The Navy released the images on 9 September. They were taken on 22 July. That gap is the tell: this was a logistics move, not an event.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:17px;color:#1a1a1a\">Quick Facts<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Airframe:<\/strong> AV-8B Harrier II+, BuNo 166288, modex WP-18, the last built for the USMC<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Delivered:<\/strong> September 2003, by Boeing<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Flight hours:<\/strong> More than 5,800<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Final squadron:<\/strong> VMA-223 \u201cBulldogs\u201d, MAG-14, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, MCAS Cherry Point<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>New home:<\/strong> National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Florida<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>USMC Harrier sundown:<\/strong> 3 June 2026, Cherry Point, with a five-ship flypast<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Replaced by:<\/strong> F-35B Lightning II<\/p><p style=\"margin:5px 0;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6\"><strong>Harrier service with the USMC:<\/strong> AV-8A from 1971, AV-8B from January 1985, so roughly 55 years<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The ceremony was in June<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Marine Corps formally retired the Harrier on 3 June 2026 at Cherry Point, with a five-ship flypast of four single-seaters and a TAV-8B trainer and a water cannon salute. VMA-223 flew the type\u2019s last official Marine flight that day. Between them, VMA-223 and VMA-231 had accounted for the last 39 airframes on strength. Individual jets have been trickling out to museums and to the boneyard ever since, which is why Harriers have still been visible in American skies through the summer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The final operational deployment had ended only two weeks before the ceremony. A VMA-223 detachment sailed with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit on Operation Southern Spear, the Caribbean counter-narcotics mission, and came home on 20 May 2026.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/av-8b-harrier-uss-iwo-jima-caribbean.jpg\" alt=\"An AV-8B Harrier II preparing to land aboard USS Iwo Jima\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A Marine AV-8B settles towards the deck of USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean, September 2025. The type flew its last operational deployment on this ship. US Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Tanner Bernat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Moving 166288 fell to Pablo \u201cLouie\u201d Sanchez, a retired gunnery sergeant who has worked the AV-8B programme since 1989 and now leads the Harrier Museum Task Force. VMA-223 maintainers Staff Sgt. Christian Regueira and Gunnery Sgt. Bradley Birchfield put the aircraft back together in Pensacola.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Each aircraft has a story and BuNo 166288, being the last USMC-produced Harrier, seemed fitting to find its final home in the National Naval Aviation Museum.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Pablo \u201cLouie\u201d Sanchez<\/strong> &mdash; Assistant Program Manager for Logistics, PMA-257, and Harrier Museum Task Force Lead<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Forty years of doing something nothing else could do<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The YAV-8B first flew on 9 November 1978 and the AV-8B entered Marine service in January 1985. Production ran until 2003, which is how 166288 came to be last off the line.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Its combat debut was Desert Storm, on 17 January 1991. Eighty-six AV-8Bs flew around 3,380 sorties and roughly 4,100 hours, holding mission availability above 90 per cent while operating from austere sites close to the front. Five were lost to surface-to-air missiles and two Marine pilots were killed. Norman Schwarzkopf later named the AV-8B among the seven weapons he considered crucial to the campaign.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Then came Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan, where the Harrier became the Corps\u2019 workhorse for close air support. On 14 September 2012, fourteen years ago today, a Taliban assault on Camp Bastion destroyed VMA-211\u2019s Harriers on the ground and killed the squadron\u2019s commanding officer, Lt. Col. Christopher \u201cOtis\u201d Raible, and Sgt. Bradley Atwell. It remains the worst single loss of US aircraft since Vietnam.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yCycjPMGupQ\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>What actually happens to a Harrier on its way to a museum: demilitarisation, disassembly and reassembly, covered in detail by the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The safety record, honestly<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>No account of the Harrier is complete without the accident rate, and it deserves better than the folklore. In December 2002 the Los Angeles Times published \u201cThe Vertical Vision\u201d, a four-part investigation by Alan C. Miller and Kevin Sack which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. It documented 148 accidents and 45 people killed, and found the Harrier had the highest major accident rate of any aircraft then in service with any US military branch. Congress held hearings. The nickname that attached itself to the aircraft was not affectionate.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The rebuttal is legitimate and comes from people who know the aircraft. The historian Lon Nordeen has pointed out that other Marine single-engine strike aircraft, the A-4 Skyhawk and the A-7 Corsair II among them, recorded higher accident rates than the Harrier did. Accidents also cluster in take-off and landing, and the Harrier by design spends a far greater proportion of its life in those regimes than a conventional jet. The raw number is documented. What it means is arguable.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/09\/f-35b-lightning-ii-cherry-point-stovl-demo.jpg\" alt=\"An F-35B Lightning II demonstrating vertical landing at MCAS Cherry Point\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The replacement, at the same base: an F-35B demonstrates short takeoff and vertical landing at Cherry Point in May 2026. US Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Dillon Anderson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/f-35-lightning-ii\/\">F-35B Lightning II<\/a> now does the job, and does it with stealth, a modern sensor suite and a far kinder safety margin. What it does not have is the Harrier\u2019s peculiar claim on affection, which came from being the only thing in the inventory that could operate from a road, a clearing or a container ship when nothing else could get there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;As an AV-8B maintainer, by placing these legacy aircraft into the National Naval Aviation Museum it is the perfect end to my Harrier career.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Gunnery Sgt. Bradley Birchfield<\/strong> &mdash; AV-8B maintainer, VMA-223<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The Harrier is not finished everywhere. The Italian and Spanish navies still fly theirs, reportedly into 2030. But American Marine Harrier operations, which began with the AV-8A in 1971, are over, and the last one built now sits in a hangar in Pensacola with its engine on a stand beside it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: DVIDS release by Megan Wasel for PMA-226, 9 September 2026; The Aviationist; US Marine Corps; Los Angeles Times, \u201cThe Vertical Vision\u201d, December 2002.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\r\n\r\n\r\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Which was the last AV-8B Harrier built for the US Marine Corps?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">BuNo 166288, modex WP-18, an AV-8B Harrier II+ delivered by Boeing in September 2003. It flew more than 5,800 hours and finished its career with VMA-223 at MCAS Cherry Point. It is now preserved at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When did the US Marine Corps retire the AV-8B Harrier?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The formal sundown was on 3 June 2026 at MCAS Cherry Point, marked by a five-ship flypast and a water cannon salute. VMA-223 flew the final Marine Harrier sortie that day. Remaining airframes have since been distributed to museums and storage.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What replaced the Harrier in Marine Corps service?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The F-35B Lightning II, which offers the same short takeoff and vertical landing capability with stealth and a far more capable sensor suite. Former Harrier squadrons are transitioning to the F-35B, while legacy Hornet units move to the carrier-capable F-35C.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was the AV-8B Harrier really that dangerous?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A 2002 Los Angeles Times investigation, which won a Pulitzer Prize, documented 148 accidents and 45 deaths and found the Harrier had the highest major accident rate of any US military aircraft then in service. Historians note earlier single-engine Marine jets recorded higher rates still.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Does anyone still fly the Harrier?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. The Italian and Spanish navies continue to operate the type from their small carriers, reportedly into 2030. 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