H11 steel is widely used in helicopter landing gears and dies for extrusion and forging. The property of H11 steel can be enhanced by several types of heat treatments for a long life span and improved design accuracy. In the present work, an attempt is made to study the effect of the tempering cycle on the two-body abrasive wear behavior. The structural characterization of hardened and tempered specimens was carried out using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). Two body abrasive wear tests were carried out using silicon carbide abrasive with a systematic and simultaneous variation of test parameters. The different tempering temperatures used in the present investigation are 200 °C, 400 °C and 600 °C. The result showed that the wear mechanism like (ploughing and micro-cutting) in each condition was dominated by the types of phases present in the material and their morphology. The wear debris was flaky and ductile. There was the presence of a small amount of SiC particles from the abrasive wear paper in wear debris for high load (40 N) wear tests. The wear debris particles were relatively finer in as-quenched condition and low tempering temperature (200 °C), while those were large for samples tempered at 400, 600 °C and fully annealed condition. The wear debris analysis through micrographs and iron oxide particles were not detected in XRD patterns.