page_title: List of Harrier operators
section_title: First generation Harrier operators
hierarchical_section_title: List of Harrier operators / First generation Harrier operators
caption_attribution_description: English: Civil terminal on the right.
context_page_description: This is a list of operators of the Harrier family of military V/STOL aircraft, designed and built in the United Kingdom and United States of America. The members of family were Hawker Siddeley P.1127, Hawker Siddeley Harrier, British Aerospace Sea Harrier, McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, and British Aerospace Harrier II. As of 2012, only the AV-8B and Sea Harrier remain in active service.
context_section_description:  India
  Indian Navy - Indian Naval Air Arm
  Indian Naval Air Squadron 552
  Operated the Harrier T.60 for Sea Harrier training, with two T4(I) as replacements.
   Spain
  Spanish Navy
  No. 008 Escuadrilla – AV-8S and TAV-8S Matador.
   Thailand
  Royal Thai Navy
  Squadron 1 Wing3 (HTMS Chakri Naruebet Flying Unit) – AV-8S and TAV-8S.  By 1999, only one aircraft of the 10 former Spanish aircraft received was believed to be airworthy because of lack of available spares. In 2006 the Harrier was retired from service.
   United Kingdom
  Royal Air Force
  No. 1 Squadron RAF
  re-equipped with Harrier GR.1s between July and October 1969 at RAF Wittering. It started to replace its first generation Harriers with Harrier GR.5s in 1988, discarding its last GR.3 on 31 March 1989.
  No. 3 Squadron RAF
  formed at RAF Wildenrath with the Harrier GR.1A on 1 January 1971, moving to RAF Gütersloh in 1977. It re-equipped with Harrier GR.5s in 1989.
  No. 4 Squadron RAF
  converted to HarrierGR.1s at RAF Wittering in early 1970, moving to Wildenrath in Germany in June that year. It moved to RAF Gütersloh in January 1977 and replaced its GR.3s with Harrier GR.7s in 1990.
  No. 20 Squadron RAF
  reformed at RAF Wittering in October 1970, moving to Wildenrath later that year. It disbanded in February 1977, with its aircraft being shared between the other two Germany based squadrons.
  No. 233 Operational Conversion Unit RAF
  formed at Wittering from the Harrier Conversion Unit in October 1970. No 233 OCU was assigned the numberplate 20(R) Squadron in 1992, with the unit flying GR.3 until 1994 and the T.4 until 1996.
  No. 1417 Flight RAF
  Deployed to Belize from 1980 to 1993.
  No. 1453 Flight RAF
  Deployed to Stanley, in the Falkland Islands from August 1983 to June 1985.
  Royal Navy - Fleet Air Arm
  899 Naval Air Squadron
  operated the Harrier T.4A and T.4N for training purposes for the Sea Harrier.
   United States
  United States Marine Corps
  VMA-231
  AV-8A/C Harrier. 1973–1985.
  VMA-513
  AV-8A/C Harrier. 1971–1986.
  VMA-542
  AV-8A/C Harrier. 1972–1986.
  VMAT-203
  Training squadron, equipped with AV-8A and TAV-8A Harrier. 1975–1987.
caption: Thailand Navy AV-8S Matador
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