This AV-8B Harrier USMC Model Airplane’s paint scheme and markings are extremely accurate and precise to the actual aircraft. This exceptional AV-8B Harrier USMC Model Airplane will surely impress anyone who receives this elegant desktop model display as a gift.
 

The American-manufactured AV-8B Harrier jet fighter of British design is on active duty with the Marines. It can take off vertically from the deck of a ship or forest clearing and then accelerate to nearly the speed of sound. The AV-8B Harrier is a Short Take Off and Vertical Landing strike aircraft. It is manufactured by McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, and BAE Systems. Its maiden flight was on the November 9, 1978 and introduced on the January 12, 1985. Its primary users are U.S. Marine Corps, Royal Air Force and Navy, Spanish Navy, and the Italian Navy. This aircraft was developed from Hawker Siddeley Harrier and BAE Sea Harrier.

The AV-8B is a single-seat, light attack aircraft that provides offensive air support to the Marine Air-Ground Task Force or MAGTF. Its primary function is to attack and destroy surface targets under day and night visual conditions. It can operate from a variety of ships, forward sites such as roads, and many others. The AV-8B Harrier only accommodates one flight crew. It has a length of 46.3 ft, wingspan of 30.3 ft, cruise speed of subsonic to transonic, and ferry range of 2100 nautical miles. It has armament of one fuselage-mounted 25 mm gun system, standard air-to ground load: six Mk 82,500 pound bombs, standard air-to-air load: four AIM-9L/M sidewinder missiles, and provisions for carrying up to 9,000 pounds of ordinance on seven stations. The AV-8B tasks include the conducting of close air support using conventional and specific weapon to conduct deep air support, to conduct offensive and defensive antiair warfare, and many others.