War veteran Harrier retired to US museum

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, currently preparing to reopen in Irvine, California, in the autumn of 2026, has secured former USMC AV-8B Harrier II BuNo 165572. The jet has flown 1,549 combat hours – the most of any Harrier still in the inventory – and has served in both Iraq and Afghanistan. On September 14, 2012, it was one of two VMA-211 jets away on a mission when Taliban forces infiltrated Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, where they destroyed the squadron’s remaining