AV-8B 'Harrier II' Marine attack aircraft. #09 From VMA-214 'Black Sheep' Squadron'. Bu.165570. The 'Harrier' jump-jet was designed by the British, and built for the USMC by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing).

Marine Attack Squadron 214 (VMA-214) is a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron consisting of AV-8B Harrier (V/STOL) jets. The squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona and is under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 13 (MAG-13) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW). The squadron is best known as the Black Sheep of World War II fame and for one of its commanding officers, Colonel Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, whose memoirs also inspired the 1970s television show Baa Baa Black Sheep, which dramatized the squadron's exploits during the war. [wiki]

Photo by Craig on Saturday, June 08, 2002 at the Fargo AirSho.