page_title: McDonnell F2H Banshee
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: McDonnell F2H Banshee / Operators
caption_attribution_description: A McDonnell F2H-2P Banshee reconnaissance plane at the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola (Florida, USA). The aircraft is painted in the markings of BuNo. 126673, an aircraft flown by Marine Photoreconnaissance Squadron VMJ-1 during the Korean War (1950-53). It was located from 1959 to 1988 in the Pocahontas Park, Vero Beach (Florida), filled with cement and buried in sand on a playground. It was acquired by the museum in 1989 and restored.aeq
context_page_description: The McDonnell F2H Banshee was a single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft deployed by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps from 1948 to 1961. It was one of the primary American fighters used during the Korean War and was the only jet-powered fighter ever deployed by the Royal Canadian Navy, serving the RCN from 1955 until 1962. The aircraft's name is derived from the banshee of Irish mythology.
context_section_description:  Canada
  Royal Canadian Navy
  VF-870 (F2H-3)
  VF-871 (F2H-3)
  VX-10 (Test Squadron) (F2H-3)
   United States
  United States Navy
  VX-3 (Evaluation) (F2H-1, F2H-4)
  VF-11 (F2H-2, F2H-4)
  VF-12 (F2H-2)
  VF-22 (F2H-2, F2H-4)
  VF-23 (F2H-3)
  VF-31 (F2H-3)
  VF-41 (F2H-3)
  VF-52 (F2H-3)
  VF-62 (F2H-2, F2H-2P)
  VF-92 (F2H-3, F2H-4)
  VF-101 (F2H-1, F2H-2B)
  VF-114 (F2H-3)
  VF-141 (F2H-3)
  VF-152 (F2H-3)
  VF-171 (F2H-1, F2H-2)
  VF-172 (F2H-1, F2H-2, F2H-2B, F2H-4)
  VC-3 (F2H-3)
  VC-4 (F2H-2B, F2H-2N, F2H-3, F2H-4)
  VC-61 (F2H-2P)
  VC-62 (F2H-2P)
  United States Marine Corps
  VMF-114
  VMF-122 (F2H-2)
  VMF-214 (F2H-4)
  VMF-224 (F2H-2)
  VMF(N)-533 (F2H-4)
  VMJ-1 (F2H-2P)
  VMJ-2  (F2H-2P)
caption: A preserved F2H-2P at the National Museum of Naval Aviation.
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